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London 7/7 bombing incidents

Posted on 08. Jul, 2005 in Daily

Hi all, thanks for the emails. We're all just fine. There were incidents both close to home and the office, Edgware is up the road from our flat, and Liverpool Street is down the road from my office. I caught the tube about 8:50am where the trains were already being disrupted, but PA announcements still indicated power surges resulting in the closure of Bank and Liverpool Street, so most of us got off at St Pauls and caught buses to the financial district without a further thought. Power problems and random stations closures for various reasons are pretty normal on the underground. Saw lots of police cars heading down to Liverpool Street around 9:05am, again not unusual. Once it was clear it was terrorist attacks, corporate security locked down the building and had everyone stay away from the windows, which is standard procedure by all the companies in the financial district to minimise the number of people on the streets and keep operating. Interestingly a lot of the buildings in the financial district including ours have bomb (proof?) glass from the IRA days. Walking home from the office around 5pm was fine, along with all the other workers, it's a nice 1.5 hour walk through the middle of London from east to west, and of course the streets were very active with police. At Chancery Lane the bomb squad cordoned off a street and sent one of their robots up to checkout a box in front a Ryman's shop, I got a few pics as they prepared the robot and sent it up. They then blew up the box which turned out to be trash. Nasty day.

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