[News] Bomb Scares

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Always quick to get the boot in.

And quick to apologise when I get it wrong.

 

[BBassic]

We had a bomb scare at school once.

I think it turned out to either be a drill or a joke.

This was Worthing High back in the late 90's, if anyone was there also or had kids who went around then.

 

[Lethargic]

There was a bomb scare in the 70's whilst at the Goldstone at a long-forgotten match. My dad told me we would have to walk a different way back to the car. I was only around ten, it must have been around 1977 and I was sat in the West just a few rows along from where young Tony Bloom sat with his Uncle. Can't remember the match though I remember being very scared.

I remember one game in the 70s where we were not allowed under the Sackville Road railway bridge and everyone was funneled over the station bridge.
Sure that was a bomb scare.

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[Swansman]

Here we rarely do bomb scares. We do a lot of bombs though. 287 crimes involving explosives just in 2019 makes us world leaders (outside of war zones) in that department I think.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I remember one game in the 70s where we were not allowed under the Sackville Road railway bridge and everyone was funneled over the station bridge.
Sure that was a bomb scare.

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I am almost certain that was the occasion I'm remembering.

 

[melias shoes]

1982. In Oxford Street before spurs game. Late November I think not exactly sure. We were in the wimpy burger bar downstairs. Left there and got the tube from Oxford Street having to get off the tube after a bomb scare further up the line. Turned out to be a hoax but scary enough all the same. Anyway that wimpy was blown up on the Monday after a bomb was found. It blew up whilst the bomb disposal officer was trying to defuse it. Awful. Often wondered if it was meant to go off on the Saturday . By the way we won the match stopping spurs going top! Michael Robinson.

I've just looked it up it was late October.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Things have moved on,you don't get bomb scares any more just people blowing themselves and
others up, how times have changed for the worse


Regards
DF

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Here we rarely do bomb scares. We do a lot of bombs though. 287 crimes involving explosives just in 2019 makes us world leaders (outside of war zones) in that department I think.

A Nobel tradition?

 

[clapham_gull]

Almost a thing of the past now?

Two from yesteryear stick in my mind.


The first was in the spring of 1981 when the British Davis Cup Tennis Squad were preparing for a tie at the Brighton Centre with a training camp at Worthing Leisure Centre (?)

With team skipper Buster Mottram being a fully paid up member of the National Front it was never going to go down well with a large Young Socialist membership at the nearby Worthing VI Form College.

A now sadly departed NSC’er, then a hotheaded left wing 17 year old student took it on himself to ring up and utter those immortal words “The Nazi C***’ Mottram’s got 30 mins to get out”.

Needless to say the place was evacuated, and the Worthing Herald got a front page lead they hadn’t expected.


The other was the inaugural Gulls Dinner at Chapmans on a Monday evening in January 1989, fresh from the plane crash front cover on the Saturday.

They were just putting the prawn cocktails out when someone phoned the pub and told them we had 30 mins to get out (must have been the norm in the 1980s)

Had we offended the IRA in the previous issues?

Obviously not, because in a drunken telephone rant years later the late Greg Stanley revealed it was him on the phone that night and not Gerry Adams.

No doubt some on here will view this thread as either pointless or offensive but I have to say writing it has been therapeutic.

In the very helpful latest Mental Help thread on NSC I’ve made no secret of the fact Ive recently found myself in a dark place, thinking about and recounting these two perhaps bizarre events has brought back a lot of really happy memories, and I find myself even smiling typing this.

My 1981 17 year old student friend, was at Chapmans that night, as was Roy Chuter, Stuart Ashby, Paul Welch, John Vinicombe and Tony Millard. Now all sadly gone but never forgotten.

As stated in the other thread if you are struggling this Christmas please don’t be afraid to ask for help, by the same token all of us please look at our contacts lists on our phones and think ‘who would love a call?’ and then make it, and make more than one.

Take care

I wouldn't be typing this if a terrorist one hadn't failed to denotate in the early 90s.

I stopped worrying about it after that.

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

Bunked off school to go to a computer fair in London in the early 80's. Was walking through the tunnels on the underground when there was a police controlled explosion at street level above us somewhere. The tunnel boomed, and loads of dust came down from the roofing. Scared the s**t out of me and my mate. Didn't tell a soul for at least 10 years, cause I had nicked off school

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Things have moved on,you don't get bomb scares any more just people blowing themselves and
others up, how times have changed for the worse


Regards
DF

Yes, things aren't what they used to be.

You knew where you stood with the IRA. Four minute warning. Hard, but fair.

 

[jessiejames]

Back in the 70s I was visiting a pal in London. We were in a big shop in Oxford Street (can't remember which) and I was trying on a beautiful leather jacket. No way could I have afforded it (I think it cost the equivalent of about three month's rent!) but boy, did it fit beautifully!
Then the alarms went off, and we were all being hustled towards the doors. So what did muggins do? Yes, you've guessed - instead of keep walking with the crowd, I took the bloody thing off and hung it back on the peg before exiting ...............

My mum worked in M&S back in the 80's they had to evacuate due to bomb scare, when they returned they went to the changing rooms to find old pair of tatty trainers and a track suit covered in stains, all of which were thrown away. 3 days later a man came into the store with a suit on hangers gave asked for the manager, he then explained that he had evacuated with the suit on and came back to pay for it and the shoes, he then asked for his old clothes to be returned. He ended up with a new track suit and trainers for nothing.

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

We were in Portland on a work up and in the middle of a 6 day war back in 77.
We had a night ashore and came back worse for wear at about 2.00am when we had a phone call made to the ship saying there was a bomb onboard from an apparent known number.
My mate who was absolutely wasted decided to put his tin hat on and stand at the top of the gangway and putting on his best John Wayne voice was telling everyone to abandon ship.
Of course it was a hoax and the next day he got called up to the skippers cabin. Thinking he was going to get trooped for being pissed onboard he was surprised to get a "Well done young man " and a few free tins thrown in as well.

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[Barham's tash]

It’s been a long time since I heard the tannoy call go out for a Mr Clear but recently on a tube into central london for the first time in about a year en famille and arrived at Earls Court only for the loudest emergency broadcast known to man ask everyone to evacuate the station. Cue panic and rushing etc only for about 30 seconds later a laconic voice confirm it was only a test…

 

[Sirnormangall]

Back in the 1970s there was a bomb scare on New Year’s Eve at the Top Rank Suite in West Street. Everyone in side, around 2,000 people, were evacuated. When the “all clear” was given around 3,000 people went back in as there was no way the door men could verify tickets.

I remember too that there was also a bomb scare at one of Terry Garigan’s last shows at the Dome. Probably not the IRA but more likely anyone from thousands of offended Sussex residents from Whitehawk, Worthing, Hove, Burgess Hill……….

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Back in the 1970s there was a bomb scare on New Year’s Eve at the Top Rank Suite in West Street. Everyone in side, around 2,000 people, were evacuated. When the “all clear” was given around 3,000 people went back in as there was no way the door men could verify tickets.

I remember too that there was also a bomb scare at one of Terry Garigan’s last shows at the Dome. Probably not the IRA but more likely anyone from thousands of offended Sussex residents from Whitehawk, Worthing, Hove, Burgess Hill……….

There was also one at an Undertones gig at the Top Rank Suite in 1981

 

[Eeyore]

I remember one in St Luke's Church in Queen's Park back in the day. All got evacuated. Dad reckoned someone had left their sandwiches in the pew.

I turned up at work in North Street but couldn't get in one Sunday as it was all roped off. We all went to the pub. Thankful to whoever left their bag that afternoon.