He was not immediately identified, but a News of the World photographer, Edward Henty, 34, had been reported missing after being in the area. On April 24, 1993, the Provisional IRA exploded a huge truck bomb in the Bishopsgate area of the City of London. Ed always answered his phone. A great bloke, a hardworking family man, who loved his flash cars, especially a bright red Alfa Romeo. ONE PERSON died and at least 40 were injured yesterday as an IRA bomb exploded in the heart of the City of London, sending a plume of black smoke high over the capital. Damage in the city caused by a huge IRA bomb left in a vehicle parked near the NatWest Tower. Repair work from last year's Baltic Exchange explosion had just been completed when the same City banks were wrecked again yesterday. First I felt the ground slap the bottom of my feet and looking up I saw a cloud of dust racing up the buildings and expanding into the sky just a couple of hundred yards from where I was.The next thing I noticed were the windows popping out of the buildings as the blast wave travelled along the street. There is damage to the structure.
Seconds later, to my amazement, she came over to me and said she was sorry to hear about my colleague and expressed her sympathies.Debris was falling all around me. Two days after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb on Bishopsgate, the Natwest Bank's tower seen badly damaged Tower 42 Old Broad Street London Originally called Natwest Tower occupied by National Westminster Bank until IRA bomb in 1993 A spokesman for the paper said last night that it believed he was dead. Although suspected to represent the logo of the Natwest Tower from the air, something that Natwest utilised in television adverts, the architect Richard Seifert always denied his design was supposed to embody Natwest's logo. I'll never know.Bits of the building were still falling and I changed films and continued to shoot while making my way towards a point where I could give the film to a bike messenger to get it back to the paper.At this point I met a couple of police officers who escorted me quite firmly to the press rendezvous point by the Bank of England. No answer. On April 24, 1993 Bishopsgate, in London’s financial hub, was the scene of a bombing that caused around £1 billion worth of damage. Liverpool Street station is expected to remain closed until later this week.Mike Oughton, 32, a communications engineer for the bank, said ceilings had collapsed, cars were crushed and doors were ripped from their hinges.
Would I be dead, too? I grabbed a cab, took my film into the office, picked up more and made my way back to the scene.It was another era. I've never seen anything like it. Unfortunately it was now out of reach behind the police cordon. I got a cab to Covent Garden and prepared for Diana's arrival.As I left the house I thought: "Here we go, another day running headlong towards what everyone else is running away from. It lifted me, pushing me over and once on the ground I turned over to keep shooting.I pulled out his business card – I still have it to this day – and kept dialling the number repeatedly.
We often worked together. We went in different directions and when I got to the next police tape a PC I knew from Hackney told me there was a "bloody great lorry bomb" on the other side of the NatWest Tower… No building within a 500-yard radius escaped unscathed.I was expecting a loud bang but instead there was a deep rumbling that seemed to go on for a long time. No answer. Two churches and an Underground station were badly damaged and the streets were covered in glass as scores of shops and offices had their windows blown out.
Workers hiding in the basement of the Hongkong building when the bomb detonated said their offices were wrecked.One man lost his fingers, another's lung collapsed, but most escaped with minor injuries, mainly cuts.Insurance assessors estimated that the explosion was one of the most expensive in the history of the IRA campaign. I knew he was dead. There was clanging as bits of aluminium cladding came down and an almost constant tinkle of broken glass. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. I found somewhere to park my car, grabbed my kit and made my way towards the police tapes as a large area had been cordoned off.Quite literally the finger of fate kept me from Bishopsgate that day. Mr Cassidy said temporary rehousing would be found for businesses needing it. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. I slumped in my chair, disappointed to have missed the chance of a big story.The blast destroyed the nearby St Ethelburga's church and severely damaged Liverpool Street station and the NatWest Tower. I often mourn his family's loss. The huge IRA bomb exploded at 10.27am on a Saturday.
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