It was the biggest ever bomb the IRA exploded on the British mainland
On June 15, 1996, the IRA singled out our city to be victim of the biggest bomb it had ever exploded on the British mainland.
Just a few months earlier the Provos had ended a 17-month ceasefire by blowing up a lorry in Canary Wharf, killing two people. They walked away, ringing an IRA chief in Ireland to let them know the job was done. The pair escaped in a burgundy Ford Granada, later abandoned in Preston.Some time after 9.38am a man with an Irish accent called Granada TV, Sky News, Salford University, North Manchester General Hospital and the Garda police in Dublin to warn a bomb would go off in one hour. He gave the location and used a code word known to Special Branch.
One hairdresser refused to let his clients leave because they still had chemicals in their hair, arguing it would be ‘too dangerous’. A group of workmen wanted to stay put because they were on weekend rates. Unseen pictures of the aftermath of the Manchester IRA bomb View gallery A pair of women working in the Arndale, on their way out for a walk, were only saved because they nipped back inside to get their bags. Two minutes before the blast, they were standing on the bridge directly above it.
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