Daily Mirror dated Friday March 9th
1973
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In the first IRA mainland bombings since 1940, four car
bombs were planted in London on March 8th. Two were defused, one in a car
outside a Post Office in Broadway and the other outside the BBC's armed forces
radio studio in Dean Stanley Street. However, the other two exploded, one near
the Old Bailey and the other at the Ministry of Agriculture off Whitehall. As a
result of the explosions one person was killed and almost 200 people were
injured.
At the time I worked near the Old Bailey at the top of
Ludgate Hill, directly opposite St Paul’s Cathedral. I had a habit of popping
out mid-afternoon to buy a Mars bar and was crossing the old Paternoster piazza
when there was a very loud boom that I felt as much as heard. As the crow flies
I was only about 300m from the blast. Luckily there were a lot of buildings in the way.
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The people arrested at Heathrow included Marian
and Dolours Price, Gerry Kelly, Hugh Feeney and Roisin McNearney. In November
1973 all except McNearney, who had turned Queen’s evidence, were convicted of
the Old Bailey and Whitehall bombings.
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Rail chaos, miners' strikes, dock strikes, go-slows, walk outs - this was the hay-day of the militant unions, but they had no
way of knowing that Margaret Thatcher’s reign was only 6 years away (give or
take 4 or 5 days).
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The London School of Economics had been a
hot-bed of student unrest since 1966 and this was yet another in a series of
protests.
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On March 5th sixty-eight people had been killed
when a Douglas DC-9, flying from Palma to London, collided in midair with a
Convair 990 Coronado aircraft over Nantes in western France. The accident
occurred during a French air traffic controller’s strike and stand-in military
controllers were being used.
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The problem is whether to watch ‘The Virginian’ and then
‘Morcambe and Wise’ or ‘Hawaii Five-O’ and ‘On the Buses’? There’d be no
hesitation in watching one of my favourite films though – Jean Luc Goddard’s
‘Alphaville’.
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Straight forward story – fan sends Paul McCartney seeds, he
plants them, they come up as cannabis, police see them, he appears in court and
is fined. I think there is a printing error though. McCartney is quoted as
saying ‘there should be legislation on the use of cannabis’. Surely there was
or he wouldn’t be in court.
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Fans got more than they bargained for when, in 2002, the
iconic Wembley Stadium was demolished and a new stadium built on the site.
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