[Brighton] new Documentary tonight about the Brighton Bombing

[Is it PotG?]

We'd been out boogeying in town earlier in the evening but had long since grabbed the kebab and gone home to bed.

 

[Triggaaar]

Several months later, the Queen was due to stay at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne. Again dad searched it but this time, the dog found a "device" in a toilet cistern....which turned out to be a fake, possibly planted by the press as a "test"

That sounds weird. A test would involve placing a device that smelled of explosives so I'm not sure how the press would do that. Hiding a device that just looked like a bomb wouldn't be found by a dog.

 

[Lenny Rider]

He comes from (London)Derry, where family values are still very divided. He chose to play for Ireland rather than Northern Ireland, so obviously has very strong beliefs.
After all, our late Queen shook hands with McGuinness in 2012.

And her Uncle Holidayed with Adolf


Re the tweet, and I know senior figures within the club felt the same, it was ill advised, think it by all means, but when you play for the team in the City where people died, maybe not?

Then again at 60 I’m not one of the millennials

 

[Hovegull]

Does anyone remember what the club did to mark the event? We were away to Oxford the next day, but at home to Barnsley the following week?

 

[HeaviestTed]

My dad worked for a company that supplied forensic coveralls, gloves, dust masks etc to, among others, Sussex police.

I remember being woken up by the sound of the phone in our hallway ringing and shortly afterwards hearing my dad drive away from the house.

I didn’t know at the time but it was about 4:30am and the call was the police HQ at Lewes, asking my dad to go and open up the warehouse because they were sending a fleet of police vans to collect loads of PPE-type stuff.

Nowadays they would need to wait three weeks for it to be shipped from china

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Fred Bishop, the fireman famous for Norman Tebbit uttering the words ‘get off my bloody foot Fred’, lived round the corner from me in Arlington Crescent, Coldean.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

And her Uncle Holidayed with Adolf


Re the tweet, and I know senior figures within the club felt the same, it was ill advised, think it by all means, but when you play for the team in the City where people died, maybe not?

Then again at 60 I’m not one of the millennials

I didn’t say I agreed with it, just his reasons for believing it.

60? You’re still a youngster.

 

[jevs]

That sounds weird. I test would involve placing a device that smelled of explosives so I'm not sure how the press would do that. Hiding a device that just looked like a bomb wouldn't be found by a dog.

Certain explosives (jelignite for example (scuse spelling) smells of almonds and used to be used to train the dogs. Things have probably changed a lot in the last 40 years though.

 

[Albion my Albion]

absolutely nothing

 

[AZ Gull]

Does anyone remember what the club did to mark the event? We were away to Oxford the next day, but at home to Barnsley the following week?

I'm not aware the club did anything. There is nothing in the programme for Barnsley. The Barnsley game was when the new North Stand roof opened. (I was at the game but have no recollection if there was anything related to the bombing).

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Fred Bishop, the fireman famous for Norman Tebbit uttering the words ‘get off my bloody foot Fred’, lived round the corner from me in Arlington Crescent, Coldean.

Best man at my wedding and good mate was Simon Webb, also a Fireman, based IIRC at *Preston Circus* and on watch that night.
He was on national news when they pulled Norman Tebbit out of the rubble on a stretcher.
He was one of the Firefighters on the front of the stretcher, can't remember if he was left or right?

** or might have been Roedean

 

[KZNSeagull]

Started my first proper job in Black Lion Street on the Monday, this happened on the Friday. All I really remember was I wandered along the seafront at lunchtime, couldn't get very close obviously, but could see the huge hole in the hotel.
I thought the documentary was a bit poor really. Didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Pretty sure I'd never heard of Airey Neave before this documentary. He was the Tory MP killed by the car bomb just before the 1979 election. I'm currently reading D-Day by Antony Beevor and he only got a mention today in the chapter about the liberation of Paris. Bizarre. Apparently he was also the first British POW to escape from Colditz.

 

[timbha]

Started my first proper job in Black Lion Street on the Monday, this happened on the Friday. All I really remember was I wandered along the seafront at lunchtime, couldn't get very close obviously, but could see the huge hole in the hotel.
I thought the documentary was a bit poor really. Didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

I don’t think that was the point of it. After 40 years there isn’t much new stuff to tell. What it did for me was to remind me of events, characters and re enforce my views.

Oddly in the immediate aftermath you were still allowed to walk on the pebbles, literally a stones throw from the Grand.

 

[Bry Nylon]

I thought the documentary was a bit poor really. Didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.

That’s because it was first broadcast 20 years ago.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Pretty sure I'd never heard of Airey Neave before this documentary. He was the Tory MP killed by the car bomb just before the 1979 election. I'm currently reading D-Day by Antony Beevor and he only got a mention today in the chapter about the liberation of Paris. Bizarre. Apparently he was also the first British POW to escape from Colditz.

A man of action, willing to put the good of the country above the law*.

"Politician Tony Benn records in his diary (17 February 1981) that a journalist from the New Statesman, Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information two years previously, from an intelligence agent, that Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if, following the election of Labour government, Labour leader James Callaghan resigned and there was a possibility that Benn might be elected in his place. Campbell said that the agent was ready to give his name and the New Statesman was going to print the story. Benn, however, discounted the validity of the story, writing in his diary: "No one will believe for a moment that Airey Neave would have done such a thing." The magazine printed the story on 20 February 1981, naming the agent as Lee Tracey. Tracey said he had met Neave, who asked him to join a team of intelligence and security specialists which would "make sure Benn was stopped". A planned second meeting never took place because Neave was murdered by the INLA (a minor mad Irish republican group) with a car bomb."

*Not always the best plan. This was the era of the 'secret army' as satirized by David Nobbs, and mocked by Tom Robinson in 'Power in the darkness', where gentlemen were in discussions about the 'balloon going up'. Thatcher's reassuring right wing populism nipped all that in the bud. Thankfully. Credit where it is due, even if it wasn't intentional.

 

[Official Old Man]

I was working in Rain, later buddies, on Kings Road. The press guy who overslept was in there until very late.
I was living in a flat on King's Road and woke up, turned on the TV and said to the wife a big incident had happened. Took 10 minutes before we realised it was outside. Pulled back the curtains and the street was packed with emergency services.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

That’s because it was first broadcast 20 years ago.

I don't think so. The copyright at the end was 2024.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Pretty sure I'd never heard of Airey Neave before this documentary. He was the Tory MP killed by the car bomb just before the 1979 election. I'm currently reading D-Day by Antony Beevor and he only got a mention today in the chapter about the liberation of Paris. Bizarre. Apparently he was also the first British POW to escape from Colditz.

He’d been a national hero - taken out by a coward.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Airey Neave had some very "strange" friends.

The Airey Neave Files

Barrister, war hero, politician. Officially: murdered by Irish National Liberation Army, 30 March 1979. Unofficially: a spy who knew too much?Unanswered questions: was he involved in dirty tricks and extreme right-wing conspiracies? Why did he have to die? And is the full story about to be revealed?

www.independent.co.uk