brooklandsblue2.0
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Who- not what.
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Who- not what.
brooklandsblue2.0
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You’re not Ronnie Pickering are you?
No!
Stuuuuuu
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Heard it from my front garden in Failsworth.
feedmpenzaandhewillscore
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Heard it from my front garden in Failsworth.
Was playing football on Lord Lane field that day, baking hot too.
BimboBob
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Living in Chichester about to get married.
Was dropping the missus in town. Normally dropped her off near M&S just where the van had been left. Couldn’t get near cos of the road closures so went down Dantzic st behind the printworks, which was not there then, still the old mirror building.
Must have been somewhere near what is now the back entrance to the printworks when it detonated. It felt like it came up out of the ground and I’m convinced my car left the floor. All kinds of rubble and glass falling down everywhere. I looked up and the plume had completely covered the arndale tower and I thought that had come down
I had no idea that the area had been cleared so my first thought was there must have been hundreds killed. Then I remembered the Warrington bomb where there was a second device so I turned the car round and got out of there quickly
Missus was distraught and I was shaking for hours. Needed a few pints watching England v Scotland to calm the nerves!!
Must have been somewhere near what is now the back entrance to the printworks when it detonated. It felt like it came up out of the ground and I’m convinced my car left the floor. All kinds of rubble and glass falling down everywhere. I looked up and the plume had completely covered the arndale tower and I thought that had come down
I had no idea that the area had been cleared so my first thought was there must have been hundreds killed. Then I remembered the Warrington bomb where there was a second device so I turned the car round and got out of there quickly
Missus was distraught and I was shaking for hours. Needed a few pints watching England v Scotland to calm the nerves!!
The Colonel
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A disgracefully generalised sweeping statement there. Most Manchester Irish have nothing to do with it. Believe me I know as for much of my life I’ve been involved with that community.Yes. Go to any Irish pub / society in England and scratch below the surface and all the rebel songs come out - believe me I KNOW.
trotsky
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Living in Hong Kong. The local English speaking news channel covered it briefly and said that nobody had been killed, so I thought it must only have been a small device (like many before) . It was quite a while until I realised how 'massive' the bomb was ... and how it would play a role in transforming the city into the modern metropolis that Manchester is today.
It just shows how something so negative can become the catalyst for something so positive.
It just shows how something so negative can become the catalyst for something so positive.
Patientman63
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Ah, the Manchester Arndale, aka the biggest toilet wall in Europe...
The IRA did more good for Manchester architecture that day than anyone previously.
jimharri
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The Arndale hasn't changed much since then. Externally, at any rate, along Market St. It'll never win any awards for aesthetic beauty.Ah, the Manchester Arndale, aka the biggest toilet wall in Europe...
The IRA did more good for Manchester architecture that day than anyone previously.