15 years on: The Manchester Bomb

[FuZzY]

Doesn't seem like it was 15 years ago since this:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1423651_pictures-and-video-15-years-on-the-day-the-manchester-ira-bomb-changed-our-city-forever" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... ty-forever</a>

Every time I cross that bridge leading from M&S I feel nervy to this day.
I was still in bed at the time the bomb went off and heard it from where I lived.

Where was you?

 

[glen quagmire]

Doesn't seem like it was 15 years ago since this:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1423651_pictures-and-video-15-years-on-the-day-the-manchester-ira-bomb-changed-our-city-forever" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... ty-forever</a>

Every time I cross that bridge leading from M&S I feel nervy to this day.
I was still in bed at the time the bomb went off and heard it from where I lived.

Where was you?

In bed also! Am i that forgettable?

 

[FuZzY]

Doesn't seem like it was 15 years ago since this:

<a class="postlink" href="http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1423651_pictures-and-video-15-years-on-the-day-the-manchester-ira-bomb-changed-our-city-forever" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://menmedia.co.uk/manchesterevening ... ty-forever</a>

Every time I cross that bridge leading from M&S I feel nervy to this day.
I was still in bed at the time the bomb went off and heard it from where I lived.

Where was you?

In bed also! Am i that forgettable?

lol

One good thing came from it, at least Manchester got the revamp it so badly needed.

I went in the Corn Exchange the week after, it was like walking into a wig-wam, with all the walls collapsed around.

 

[Fitton]

I was on my way to blackley to see my gran remember hearing it.

Thought it was a car having a blow out or back firing loudly until we got to my grans and could see a plume of smoke rising for manchester city centre

 

[scall11]

I was in Stockport, in the garden with my dad. When he heard the boom, my dad joked that it was thunder and we better get moving cutting the ivy before we got wet....of course, it was a beautiful sunny day and not a cloud in the sky.

It wasn't until we stopped for dinner, turned on the telly and there it was about the explosion. Stuck KEY 103 on all afternoon, with regular updates about it. Still a miracle that no-one was killed.

Still like walking around there and looking at that postbox:

 

[mcfc2112]

I was in bed too...don't remember it being that crowded!

Remember (fuzzily) the England v. Scotland Euro 96 game later that afternoon more...

 

[BlueHerts]

Worked in JJB Sports in the Arndale as a Saturday job, remember having a tab in one of the service corridors overlooking the bus station entrance and saw the security shutters being put down, then a polite announcement asking shoppers to evacuate followed by one directed at staff. No-one thought it was for real, walked over to Victoria Station and was stood on the steps up to the MEN when it went off, knocked a few people off their feet and heard the glass go in at the station, just silent apart from the alarms and sirens going off.
Walked to Crescent to get a train home and never bothered going back to work at JJB (they wanted to put me in Salford Shopping City, I lived in A-u-L so told them to poke it).
The good news was what it did for the City Centre, Manc was an abominable shit hole then and it gave them the impetus to improve the area which in my opinion was seriously lagging behind Leeds and even Liverpool at the time. On another bright note, I had been trying to get the day off to Watch England v Scotland in the Euro's anyway and I got back in time to watch it. Bonus.

 

[Anonymous]

I was in Longsight at the time , doin' a spot of gardening , you could hear the bomb go off as clear as day ......

the post box survived because there's almost as much of it planted below the ground , as you can actually see above ground level , but it really made a mess of that area of Manchester

still, at least it forced this up until then lethargic council to finally get it's head in gear an' redevelop the place!

 

[Threeinarow]

I was at Alton Towers, on a works do to watch an M People concert in the evening.

 

[crumpsallblue]

Was in bed meself, couldnt believe it when i got into town. Had arranged to meet mates in the Garrett to watch game, ended up watchin it in Land o Cakes on me own as couldnt get through town... Strange day indeed.