Bomb attacks may feature heavily.
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/3/newsid_2519000/2519715.stm

This is a lesser known IRA bombing of Manchester than the big re-designing one of 1996.

This was just before I stopped working in Manchester at the end of 1993. At the time, I was catching the train into Manchester and had two options. The first was to get off at Victoria and walk up to Crown Square, cutting across Parsonage Gardens with my breakfast in hand. Or, get off at Salford and walk over Ashley Bridge to Crown Square.

On this day, I walked up from Salford station and was on Ashley Bridge when the boom and blow out of glass from windows of what I thought were the Inland Revenue's building showered down on the street. Luckily, I was on the side of the Crown Courts and well away from it.

It's more of a walk from Victoria, so I probably wouldn't have been affected had I come from that end... although the surronding area was sealed pretty quickly making movement virtually impossible.

I do remember not being allowed down Deansgate or thru Salford for some time.... and I remember spending the afternoon in the pub getting wankered and still being paid!
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 9:56, 1 reply)

I remember that, I worked in the building next door to the Inland Revenue and was in there when the bomb went off. It went off about 100 yards from our office.

Don't remember much more than getting the fuck out of there sharpish and taking about 2 hours to get up to Picadilly to get the bus home as that many streets were blocked off.
(brocky, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 22:32, closed)