The PA
>>I left Birmingham (from work) 17 years ago to have my son and really havn't been back to the city centre since, but we were in Birmingham the night the bombs went off. I worked at the Centre hotel opposite the underground pub on New Street. A night to forget I think. <<

Wow, I have never forgot that night.
My father worked at Lucas in Shaftsmoor Lane on nights.
He got the bus from great barr to New Street and then walked to the bus station. he had just turned the corner out of New Street (where New Street station is) then bang. A minute or so earlier he would have been blown up. As it was, he lived to the ripe old age of 90.

For the next 6 months, whenever I heard an Irish voice the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end.