Bombs

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I was thrown out of bed by the Woolwich bomb in ?85 - we lived about 1

1/2ish miles from the barracks, and it went off in the early hours of the

morning.

There was much hysteria in one of my sister's primary schools when the woman

from the Baader Meinhof was sighted outside the school a couple of times,

looking at the kids. (can't remember her name, now?!) Anyway, armed guards

were posted at all entrances to the school and security was topped up to

levels of major paranoia. Turned out it was just a woman - not the

terrorist at all - and the kids were probably more frightened by the men

with guns in the playground!

Vicki

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We live less than a mile from Staples Corner where there was a bomb a

few yrs ago, can't remember exactly when; I didn't hear it but members

of my family did..

But having a second home in Jerusalem; you get used to the constant

threat of terrorism, and seeing ordinary people (like your plumber,

electrician etc) casually wearing a pistol stuck in the back of his

trousers. Sitting in a restaurant seeing girls and boys in uniform

around with rifles slung over the backs of their chairs..

Since the latest intifada last September we have been to Israel once

(going again in August, and I have two married kids there), and we are

just much more aware of where we go on trips, staying clear of the

" hot spots " .

Ruthie

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Ruthie wrote:

> We live less than a mile from Staples Corner where there was a bomb

a

> few yrs ago, can't remember exactly when; I didn't hear it but

members

> of my family did..

When I lived in London I managed to miss both the bomb and

the Downing St mortars, just. For the first our train arrived just

after it had gone off - we were all filed out of side entrance at

platform ?20. The second I had just arrived at a course on Trafalgar

Square and that sounded like a huge artic truck going over a series of

bumps..

I was on a train to London from Nottingham when a non-IRA incident

resulted in the track near St Albans being 'blown up' and I lived on

the edge of Wandsworth Common when there was a bomb placed on the

track into Clapham Junction. We heard it but thought it was barrels

being delivered to the pub up the road; it sounded like they had all

fallen off the back of the lorry.

I had been drinking in a pub one night with a chap from work. When we

left we went in opposite directions - he towards Bishopsgate just as

the bomb went off there whilst I was safely at Blackfriars

underground. DH, who was a barman when I first met him, was working

in the pub we had been drinking in that night and it blew the doors

open although the pub was on Fleet Street. , with whom I had been

drinking about 15 mins earlier blew in slightly later, white as a

sheet by all accounts.

Now that I no longer work and live in London, I understand why my mum

used to ring every time something happened. At the time it was just

life and bomb scares were so common that no-one panicked when there

was one (a scare).

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Sue

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In a message dated 5/25/01 2:27:18 AM W. Australia Standard Time, Lonnie

writes:

> I must have been 1992

Yes - think it was. was born in October 92 at the Royal Free. Where

abouts in Cricklewood?

Debbie Slater

Perth, WA