When was the bishopsgate bomb

The bomb, which contained one tonne of explosives, exploded at Buildings within a yard radius were extensively damaged, including the NatWest Tower and Liverpool Street Tube station.

By the time Jonathan started his shift, scores of emergency services crews had descended on the scene. In the hours and days after the bomb went off, the phones at Wood Street Police Station rang off the hook with civilian reports of vehicles parked at odd angles, suspicious packages in the street and all manner of strange behaviours. The City was on edge, understandably so.

Just over a year before the Bishopsgate bomb, the group had been responsible for a similar explosion nearby at the Baltic Exchange on St Mary Axe, killing three people and injuring 91 others. Most roads in the City became exit-only, with the eight routes in guarded by armed police and monitored by CCTV cameras. There were changes to policing too. He was supervising the control room at Wood Street on Saturday 3 June when three terrorists in a van mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge and then went on a stabbing spree in Borough Market, killing eight and injuring The attack, and others in Manchester, Westminster and Finsbury Park last year, prompted the force to step up its counter-terrorism policing measures once again, piloting a programme of highly visible and plain-clothes officers trained in behaviour analysis to identify potential terror plots.

Opposite number 99, St Ethelburga church was destroyed, it has now been rebuilt in the original style. The bomb was tiny compared to World War Two standards. The cookie alone was almost twice the size of the IRA bomb at Billingsgate. Hundreds of these fell on German cities every night. The reaction in the City was pretty immediate as was the desire to secure the area from future damage.

In spite of this, the buildings around 99 Billingsgate have remained very similar to what they were previously. In Manchester, in contrast, the city centre was redesigned following the destruction of the Arndale Centre and surrounding streets by the biggest bomb exploded by the IRA on the mainland. Routes into the City were closed and checkpoints set up, small police boxes followed by a kink in the road, many of which remain to this day.

They look less like a Ring of Steel and more like a set of lonely and forgotten sentries from a forgotten period of our history. Some contemporary working practices are directly influenced by the bombing.

The introduction of clear desk policies were a direct result of Bishopsgate, as the blown out windows scattered thousands of pages of confidential client information across the City. The bombing was also largely responsible for the introduction of disaster recovery systems across the City. Despite the cost of the damage almost causing the collapse of Lloyds of London, City life returned to normal and the IRA ceased their bombing operations in England shortly after, until the Canary Wharf bombing in As before, huge damage in the Square Mile had little affect on people going to work.

The world has changed during lockdown. The City has endured rebellion, fire, financial collapse and an awful lot of bombs.

It has changed and adapted just as we all have done over the past few weeks. It will continue to do so. More importantly, despite the massive adversity individuals in the City have faced, they helped rebuild the district into one of the major financial centres of the world.

We should do the same. When not working, Dan has spent most of lockdown being taught about dinosaurs by his son and tinkering with his growing collection of film cameras. TV A new online only channel for history lovers.

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