7th July 2005 was one of the worst days to hit london this century when 4 suicide bombings struck London's public transport system during the morning rush hour.

 

At 8:50 a.m. BST, three bombs exploded within 50 seconds of each other on three London Underground trains. A fourth bomb exploded on a bus at 9:47 a.m. (nearly an hour later) in Tavistock Square. The bombings led to a severe, day-long disruption of the city's transport and mobile telecommunications infrastructure.

 

Fifty-two people were killed in the attacks, including the four bombers, and about 700 injured, of whom about 100 required overnight hospital treatment or more. The incident was the deadliest single act of terrorism in the United Kingdom since Lockerbie (the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270), and the deadliest bombing in London since the Second World War.

 

So tomorrow, remember the 2 minute silence at Mid-day to remember the 52 who died in London.

I will do that Dave!!

About what time is the silence? I know it's about six hours behind, but I do think it needs to be noted here, too. Awful thing, just awful.

it sucks :( my birthday is on july 7th

I still remember what I did exactly on that day one year ago. It's the same with 9/11. :(

 

All tv-channels here interrupted their regular programmes and Viva had a British flag in his logo the day after 7/7.

 

It was amazing how good the citizens of London reacted after the attacks. They were so brave and continued to live without being worry.

I don't remember a thing... I remember watching Fox News, but not a lot of reaction to it from anybody in my area... I feel sad now, and I still can't understand the pain or anything.

Woah, a year already. :stunned:

That was a pretty scary day, two of my family were working in London, but luckily nowhere near the bombings, and my closest friend was down the street in Russel Square when the bomb went off, but thank god she was no where near the explosion. Still shook her up pretty bad though seeing all that chaos and panic.

 

Getting on the tube afterwards was pretty nerve wracking the first few times (for me anyway) :wreck: but hey, you gotta get on with life. Living in fear was what the terrorists wanted, but London refused.

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2 and a half hours after this post :thinking: :)

oh boy..i remember very clearly what i was doing. I was at Brighton at the moment and our plan was to go to London at 8th day. I'm so happy that we weren't there at 7th :\

I remember this day very well. Because I kinda had a strange, bad feeling in the morning.. I had a summer job in the bank at that time, and on the front of the branch, there was a little TV, running without sound. I remember looking at it and reading something with "LONDON" and I knew something was wrong.. I was shocked and I even started crying. Because I had this horrible feeling - I know a person in London, a person I still love, but who I'm not in touch with anymore. And I had the bad feeling of him being there, being hurt.. I still don't know if anything happened to him...

 

Just a few weeks later, I travelled to London and I didn't use the tube at all, I went everything by foot..

The years gone so quickly!

I remember I was on a small camping holiday with my friends and we were the only people on the site, the owner came over and told us about it....it was horrible. My first thought was for my uncle who works in London....but he'd phoned my mum and he was fine.

It was such a horrific thing...although pretty inevitable given all of the other attacks around the world. I feel so so bad for those poor people in those trains and their families. :(

It was good that people showed they weren't afraid to get on with their lives, even when those other people nearly did it again the week after. Scary stuff. :(

When the bombs went off, I think I was still asleep after the late night before (didn't get back into the house 'til 1:00 in the morning after the oasis concert).

I remember it very well...

I'm not from England, but it was also the day I went to my first Coldplay concert and Chris gave a beautiful little speech about it... It was still a great night and a great atmosphere even though you could see the band was really shocked... I won't forget it easily.. it made a lasting impression..

Anyone see the part about the 7/7 bombings on news 24, only a minute of footage bought together with "What If" played on top of the pictures.

 

I started crying with the footage because the music backed up with the video really made me sad

I remember the elation of 6/7 and the tragedy of 7/7. From one extreme to another all in one city, and all in 24 hours.

What was 6/7? Olympic bid?

yup

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/4649019.stm

one year ago yesterday

I remember the elation of 6/7 and the tragedy of 7/7. From one extreme to another all in one city' date=' and all in 24 hours.[/quote']

 

Yeah, that was pretty crazy.