Five people died and several others were seriously injured.
However, 37 years ago the neighbourhood was the scene of one of Britain's biggest ever police anti-terrorist operations.
It was one of the biggest crimes ever committed in Britain - the attempted assassination of a Prime Minister and her cabinet.The longest timer the IRA normally used was three months, so the decision was made to check back through hotel records for that period. Every guest and member of staff from that time had to be traced and interviewed before they could be eliminated from the inquiry.The work took them three weeks and was particularly dangerous with the remaining structure threatening to fall at any time.
Fingerprint experts examined the hotel registration cards one by one focusing on cards from room 629.No one who lived there had ever heard of Walsh nor had any of the neighbours. When they asked their bosses if they should make an arrest, they were instead told just to follow the pair who had boarded a train to Glasgow.
He was seized by the arm and thrown out of the property to other officers as more police officers burst into the flat. After his arrest on June 22, 1985, Magee was taken to Stewart Street police office in Glasgow before being transferred to Paddington Green, the specialist anti-terrorist police station in London.
The following year Magee admitted in a newspaper interview that he carried out the bombing, but claimed he hadn't left a fingerprint on the registration card, saying:"If that was my fingerprint I did not put it there.”
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