Birmingham Pub Bombings Memorial
On 21st November 2018 a new memorial to the victims of the Birmingham Pub Bombings was unveiled in a ceremony outside New Street Station, exactly forty-four years after the atrocity took place.
Birmingham Pub Bombings Memorial | Michael Tracey Films
On November 21st 1974, two bombs exploded in pubs in central Birmingham killing 21 people and injuring over 200. The terrorism also led to an aftermath of racialisation and targeting against the Irish community.
A new memorial commissioned by Birmingham Irish Association now stands outside New Street station as a symbol of peace and reconciliation.
michaeltraceyfilms.com
Families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings react to the inquest verdict
A botched IRA waning caused or contributed to the deaths of 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, an inquest jury has concluded.
The two bombs that exploded in the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pub left more than 200 people injured.
The 11-member jury panel sat for almost six weeks. An unanimous decision determined that an inadequate warning call, cost the stretched police vital minutes.
Read More:
From Brexit breaking news to HD movie trailers, The Sun newspaper brings you the latest news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world.
Become a Sun Subscriber and hit the bell to be the first to know
Read The Sun:
Like The Sun on Facebook:
Follow The Sun on Twitter:
Subscribe to The Sun on Snapchat:
Pub Bombings Memorial
A small group of relatives and survivors gathered at Birmingham Cathedral to remember those who lost their lives in terror attacks 35 years ago
The Birmingham Pub Bombings Inquests begin | ITV News
The inquests into the deaths of 21 people, who died when bombs exploded in two Birmingham pubs in November 1974, are underway. 182 people were injured.
They are expected to last for at least five weeks and are being held in public at Birmingham Coroner’s Court.
The reopening of the inquests is the result of a long campaign by some of the victims’ families.
• Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube:
• Get breaking news and more stories at
Follow ITV News on Facebook:
Follow ITV News on Twitter:
Follow ITV News on Instagram:
Pen portraits of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings |ITV News
The inquests into the deaths of people killed in the Birmingham pub bombings has heard that there were more than 50 IRA attacks in the Midlands before the two explosions.
21 people died in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town in November 1974.
Over the last two days, the inquest has been hearing pen portraits of the people who died - from the people who knew them - their relatives.•
Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube:
• Get breaking news and more stories at
Follow ITV News on Facebook:
Follow ITV News on Twitter:
Follow ITV News on Instagram:
FORTY YEARS SINCE BIRMINGHAM BOMBINGS (21/11/2014)
Forty years since the Birmingham pub bombings which took the lives of twenty one people and injured hundreds, a memorial service at Birmingham Cathedral marks the anniversary.
Birmingham Pub Bombings: ITV Central special programme | ITV News
More than 44 years after the bombings, the inquests into the deaths of the bereaved loved ones conclude the victims were unlawfully killed.
Get breaking news and more stories:
Follow ITV News Central on Facebook:
Follow ITV News Central on Twitter:
Follow ITV News Central on Instagram:
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
In the early evening of 21 November, at least three explosive devices were planted in locations around central Birmingham. Two of these were in public houses and, at 20:11, a man with an Irish accent called the city’s newspapers with a coded warning about the presence of the explosives but no specific details about their locations.
Although the Provisional IRA has never formally admitted responsibility for the bombings, they came at a time when attacks on mainland Britain by the Irish republican revolutionary organisation were occurring on average once every three days.
One of the Birmingham bombs was concealed inside either a duffel bag or a briefcase and planted inside the Mulberry Bush pub on the ground floor of the 25-storey Rotunda office block. It exploded just six minutes after the telephone warning, devastating the building and killing ten people while leaving many others horrifically injured. Ten minutes later a second bomb exploded in the Tavern in the Town pub, killing a further 9 people outright while two of the injured later died in hospital.
Within three hours of the bombings, five men had been detained at Heysham Port from where they had intended to sail to Belfast. They had all lived in Birmingham for a number of years but had travelled from Birmingham New Street station that evening. By 23 November, and after being subjected to extreme physical and psychological abuse they, along with a sixth man, had all signed forced confessions admitting their involvement in the pub bombings.
The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life imprisonment in a huge miscarriage of justice. Their convictions were eventually quashed in 1991, but nobody else has since been charged.
Birmingham Pub Bombing : Michelle Bealey talks about her father
This piece first broadcast on 14 Jul 2016. Televised on UK's regional television BBC One - West Midlands. Programme (Program) - Midlands Today.
Julie Hambleton Wants An Inquest Into The Birmingham Pub Bombings | Good Morning Britain
Julie Hambleton, whose sister died in the Birmingham pub bombings, wants answers.
IRA atrocities - The Birmingham Pub Bombings
A short video about that Dark Day In November where 21 innocent people were slaughtered by Sinn Fein/IRA
Birmingham pub bombings: Court overturns coroner's ruling | ITV News
A coroner has been ordered to reconsider his decision to restrict the scope of inquests into the Birmingham pub bombings after a legal challenge by victims' families. The 1974 bombing left 21 people dead and more than 200 injured.
Read more:
• Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube:
• Get breaking news and more stories at
Follow ITV News on Facebook:
Follow ITV News on Twitter:
Follow ITV News on Instagram:
Why won't the police name the Birmingham pub bombing suspects? | Mike Graham
Inquests in to the Birmingham pub bombing in 1974 have confirmed that the suspects will not be named. Julie Hambleton lost her sister Maxine in the explosion and talks to Mike & Dawn about her last memory of her sister and the ongoing protests surrounding the case.
Birmingham pub bombing inquests: Victims described in court | ITV News
On February 26th, relatives of people who died in the Birmingham Pub Bombings cried in court as they described their loved ones to the jury.
They stood up, telling the court what their relative was like, describing the last time they saw them and how they found out that they'd been killed.
Get breaking news and more stories:
Follow ITV News Central on Facebook:
Follow ITV News Central on Twitter:
Follow ITV News Central on Instagram:
Birmingham Pub Bombings
In 1974, Bombs in two Birmingham Pubs left 21 People Dead and More than 200 Injured, it was one of the Worst Terror Attacks on the British Mainland. Now nearly 42 Years later on 30th May, a Coroner has Ruled that the Inquest into the Deaths has to be Reopened. The Inquest was Suspended when Six Men were Jailed for the Attacks, their Convictions were later Quashed. The Coroner said there was New Evidence that Police may have Missed Advanced Warnings of the Bombings. West Midlands Police had Opposed the Reopening of the Inquests, but they now Welcome the Coroner's Decision. Well they Would, Wouldn't They. I Smell a Big Dirty Establishment Rat here.
Fresh inquests ordered into Birmingham pub bombings
New inquests are to be held into the deaths of 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.
Read more here:
Subscribe for more from the ITV News team:
BIRMINGHAM PUB BOMBINGS ANNIVERSARY (22/11/2012)
A grim milestone was reached in Birmingham last night - it's thirty eight years since two pub bombings killed twenty one people and injured almost two hundred in the city centre.
Six men jailed for the atrocities were released in nineteen ninety-one, after their convictions were ruled unsafe. Investigators are now reviewing all the evidence in the case, to see if it can be re-opened.
Birmingham pub bombings: Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six, speaks
Speaking outside court, Paddy Hill, one of the six men wrongly convicted of the bombings, welcomes the decision to order new inquests.
BIRMINGHAM BOMBS - COLOUR - NO SOUND
Various shots of the damage done by the two bombs which exploded in Public Houses. Some Police and Firemen activities, general shots of the damage. General shots of the Birmingham Bull ring and surrounding areas - traffic through streets etc. Interior shots of Hospital with many of the injured being attended by doctors and nurses. SCU shots of the injured. GV'S Centre of Birmingham with traffic
You can license this story through AP Archive:
Find out more about AP Archive: