m7mcfc
Well-Known Member
Largely forgotten due to the 1996 bomb. On the morning of the 3rd Dec, 1992 the IRA set a device off in Parsonage Gardens behind Kendal's. It caused major damage to office's and buildings in the area. I remember Albert Bridge House and the HMRC with all the windows blown out.
The police directed the public towards the North side of Deansgate where the old Shambles Square and Cathedral are. Another device then exploded on Cateton Street right in the direction the police where evacuating people away from the first explosion. No deaths but many people were injured unlike the 1996 bomb where hardly anyone got a scratch but the damage to buildings and the City was greater.
I remember this morning well, I had been in the Safeway in Shambles Square getting a few bits on my way to work. I was doing electrical work on Manchester town Hall.
There was genuine fear, with rumours devices had been planted all over the City. I remember thinking I'm in the Town Hall, surely this will be there No1 target I've got to get out of here.
Must have been other blues caught up in this that day.
The police directed the public towards the North side of Deansgate where the old Shambles Square and Cathedral are. Another device then exploded on Cateton Street right in the direction the police where evacuating people away from the first explosion. No deaths but many people were injured unlike the 1996 bomb where hardly anyone got a scratch but the damage to buildings and the City was greater.
I remember this morning well, I had been in the Safeway in Shambles Square getting a few bits on my way to work. I was doing electrical work on Manchester town Hall.
There was genuine fear, with rumours devices had been planted all over the City. I remember thinking I'm in the Town Hall, surely this will be there No1 target I've got to get out of here.
Must have been other blues caught up in this that day.