I remember being sat in my car in a traffic jam on the A5103, where Hulme arch is now. Car was turned off as traffic was so heavy. Didn't hear anything but the car rocked like someone had put their bodyweight on the rear to rock it. I got out as I thought one of my tyres had blown. Had no idea until I had got home.
It's a dump like most big cities in England,. Old decrepit and dysfunctional.. Most beautiful cities in Europe exist on the continent like Brugge Utrecht Antwerp Luxembourg Barcelona isAntwerp Luxembourg Barcelona ,Bamberg, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Innsbruck, Rome, Bologna, Naples, ,Milan, some parts of Paris and the list goes on and on Not saying that it's all bad because we have Lincoln York and some other examples but definitely the big cities are just dysfunctional dumps
A friend of mine was sheltering on Bridge Street with a group of other people when the bomb went off and it lifted them all off their feet. So from the point of the explosion on Corporation Street, the blast wave went down St. Mary's Gate, left into Deansgate all the way to Bridge Street , amongst the other streets, such as Blackfriars and what have you, yet still had the power to lift people off their feet.
It was supposed to lift britain off its feet. Specifically it was targeted according to a well published I R A doctrine , and that was to hit both military and economic targets. Hitting the economic targets curbed British and international investment in N.I. thereby making it too expensive on the British corporations, government and tax-payers. It was well known that "one bomb in Britain was worth 100 in Ireland". So, after 2 years of watching Major stall on peace talks , the P.IRA decided to hit economic investment in the dead centre of the Empire. The bomb which ended 35 years of conflict was in Canary Wharf. 2 dead. Multiple 90 minute warnings. The British Establishments reaction was (quote) " *Two more bombs of this magnitude will cause ALL financial and Real Estate investment to flee London City* " If you consider how significant that is. The London Square Mile losing its Real Estate and Banks would be like a small country going bankrupt. So , the "Peace Process" started in earnest, and instead of the I R A being told "NEVORR ! NEVOOR , NEVOOR! ......they were told "Ok, thats fair I suppose". So, Id consider Canary Wharf (same campaign) to arguably the most effective bomb in history. It ended 35 years of conflict and Britain's oldest War and longest Operation in its history.
@@olliephelan The British Government were demanding an immediate decommissioning of all weapons by the PIRA that had been stalling the peace talks.... if memory serves me right... yes you are 100% correct the British Government knew that the economic fallout would have been catastrophic if one more huge devastating 💣 bomb had gone off.... PIRA had stepped up the size of their bombing attacks.... Canary Wharf was huge but Manchester made that look like a fire cracker... Brits knew they wouldn't be able to stop these bombing attacks on their mainland by PIRA so the strategy worked it forced the Brits to the table...
@@ogrebattle22763 Major was maddening. If you watch the Long Good Friday, it gets a touch spooky. Canary Wharf was where The Long Good Friday was filmed. GFA ? And the plot was International investment in the Docklands being blown up by the I R A. And thats what leds to the Good Friday Agreement. The Good Friday Agreement was 75 years to the day of the end of the Civil War. There seems to be a thing about Good Fridays. Better than Mondays maybe
I remember going back the following Saturday couldn't get anywhere near the vinyl shops I wanted to get to vinyl exchange on Oldham Street and Manchester underground in the corn exchange left if for weeks till I went back
What would this video be like if all them towers of babel were in the back ground and if you think this wasp sting wasn't for that then Babylon your wrong
Takes even more guts by the British Army of "mucs" to gun down & murder unarmed innocent Irish men women & children shoot them in the back & then lie about it like cowards by claiming they were under attack...
Love Manchester but in the Sun it’s something else. Sunny today and about 5c but still pretty magical, few pints in Shambles square, NQ, Deansgate, the Bars next to the canals plenty of top places for a good day in town.........actually thinking of phoning a Taxi now and going for a beer 😂 cost me about a tenner and be able to get pissed and good meal for about £60, even less depending on where you go 🥰
If you love manchester which there is nothing wrong with that but it means you haven't really seen the world really is beautiful if you know what I mean
Wouldn't worry too much - ArmaghRepublic only has 4 subscribers and one friend ! Best thing that ever happened to Manchester - Its like it is today because this happened @marria03
Videos like this showing the aftermath of this bombing should make locals and people who live in the western world realise what sort of damage countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia faced just 10 or so years later. When the British and American foreign policy illegally invaded Libya and Iraq, these were the types of bombs being dropped daily by fighter jets. Furthermore, the indirect consequences of these illegal invasions were even worse.
Manchester thanks the IRA as this was the best thing to happen to the city centre economy booming, largest banking sector outside London and huge investment since that day.
Ok sure this happend , but with an explosion as big as this & , not a scorch ???, they do make explosives to cause more damage, filming whilst walking all over a crime seene , with out a glimpse of the fire service , humm & other mob , acting , ' wounder who planted that ??? No , fire service petrol , cars people walking lazily a way , , no c b r n deployed , they have filmed from the s / z to the b / z , the explosives used are millatary, not like the I r a bombs of old , fuel & Gas they produce dark thick smoke & loads of fire I can tell you ! , they have put on a good show , don't you think , millatary explosives , mark my word , , almost like a British 911 , & still you accept it as the norm , , common there is major damage to buildings, where are the crews ie fire & rescue, would have thought they would there in nunbers, come on , please start to understand , politics are dirty & food for there media , good try ,
It's sad to see the city like this. We responded by having a massive rave at Castlefield. No hate here.
I remember being sat in my car in a traffic jam on the A5103, where Hulme arch is now. Car was turned off as traffic was so heavy. Didn't hear anything but the car rocked like someone had put their bodyweight on the rear to rock it. I got out as I thought one of my tyres had blown. Had no idea until I had got home.
Manchester is a beautiful city.
David Rieckhof it's. shithole
@Christopher Teasdale where are you from dickhead?
@@outsidethepyramid The guy can’t even string a coherent sentence together, I wouldn’t bother with him.
@Christopher Teasdale - you are clearly from Grimsby or Skegness. Jealous of Manchester much?
It's a dump like most big cities in England,. Old decrepit and dysfunctional.. Most beautiful cities in Europe exist on the continent like Brugge Utrecht Antwerp Luxembourg Barcelona isAntwerp Luxembourg Barcelona ,Bamberg, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Innsbruck, Rome, Bologna, Naples, ,Milan, some parts of Paris and the list goes on and on
Not saying that it's all bad because we have Lincoln York and some other examples but definitely the big cities are just dysfunctional dumps
Manchester looks beautiful in the sun, wish it was always like this!
A friend of mine was sheltering on Bridge Street with a group of other people when the bomb went off and it lifted them all off their feet. So from the point of the explosion on Corporation Street, the blast wave went down St. Mary's Gate, left into Deansgate all the way to Bridge Street , amongst the other streets, such as Blackfriars and what have you, yet still had the power to lift people off their feet.
It was a 3,500 lb bomb by the PIRA that lifted you off your feet...
It was supposed to lift britain off its feet.
Specifically it was targeted according to a well published I R A doctrine , and that was to hit both military and economic targets.
Hitting the economic targets curbed British and international investment in N.I. thereby making it too expensive on the British corporations, government and tax-payers.
It was well known that "one bomb in Britain was worth 100 in Ireland".
So, after 2 years of watching Major stall on peace talks , the P.IRA decided to hit economic investment in the dead centre of the Empire.
The bomb which ended 35 years of conflict was in Canary Wharf.
2 dead. Multiple 90 minute warnings.
The British Establishments reaction was (quote) " *Two more bombs of this magnitude will cause ALL financial and Real Estate investment to flee London City* "
If you consider how significant that is. The London Square Mile losing its Real Estate and Banks would be like a small country going bankrupt.
So , the "Peace Process" started in earnest, and instead of the I R A being told "NEVORR ! NEVOOR , NEVOOR! ......they were told "Ok, thats fair I suppose".
So, Id consider Canary Wharf (same campaign) to arguably the most effective bomb in history.
It ended 35 years of conflict and Britain's oldest War and longest Operation in its history.
@@olliephelan The British Government were demanding an immediate decommissioning of all weapons by the PIRA that had been stalling the peace talks.... if memory serves me right... yes you are 100% correct the British Government knew that the economic fallout would have been catastrophic if one more huge devastating 💣 bomb had gone off.... PIRA had stepped up the size of their bombing attacks.... Canary Wharf was huge but Manchester made that look like a fire cracker... Brits knew they wouldn't be able to stop these bombing attacks on their mainland by PIRA so the strategy worked it forced the Brits to the table...
@@ogrebattle22763
Major was maddening.
If you watch the Long Good Friday, it gets a touch spooky.
Canary Wharf was where The Long Good Friday was filmed.
GFA ?
And the plot was International investment in the Docklands being blown up by the I R A.
And thats what leds to the Good Friday Agreement.
The Good Friday Agreement was 75 years to the day of the end of the Civil War.
There seems to be a thing about Good Fridays.
Better than Mondays maybe
A cousin of mine was shot dead by British soldiers in derry . If I had a nuclear bomb ye tan filth would get no warning. Sçum
even only a few days after the blast... the city looks SO much cleaner than it does in 2013...
That's because the Provisional I.R.A blew the dirt away.
Demographic changes
I remember being in the back garden and my mum was hanging the clothes we only lived what used to be woodlands met stop. And the ground shook
I'm part Mancunian and part Irish. That's a bit of a predicament innit?
@Puppy 1975 I mean Manchester has a large irish population so it never made sense to me why they chose Manchester out of everywhere
07:46 Didn't know there was another McDonalds down there as well. They were everywhere lol
never seen before video - just raw footage taken the day after.
I remember the day it went off, eerie. Looks much nicer now though :D
Has this been on mainstream news?
you serious?
Trying to find the bbc documentary on this anybody help out ?
How long was the city out of action for?
I remember going back the following Saturday couldn't get anywhere near the vinyl shops I wanted to get to vinyl exchange on Oldham Street and Manchester underground in the corn exchange left if for weeks till I went back
What would this video be like if all them towers of babel were in the back ground and if you think this wasp sting wasn't for that then Babylon your wrong
Does anyone know how long after the bombing, was this video taken?
day after
it seems harsh but at least no ones getting beheaded
yeah it takes real guts to park up a lorry full of semtex and run away....
Takes even more guts by the British Army of "mucs" to gun down & murder unarmed innocent Irish men women & children shoot them in the back & then lie about it like cowards by claiming they were under attack...
the IRA killed the largest number of civilians in the northern Ireland troubles,most of IRA, s victims were from the nationalist community...
@@61505 The clueless American is at it again. Tom Barry must be turning in his grave at your nonsense.
@@ogrebattle22763 dumby paddy lol
the irish man is always the butt of all jokes
@@stevecampbell7589 Yeah just like you are you fat fucking pig...
It does look better I must admit lol
I was in Manchester the day the bomb went off, I couldn’t get home that night and I had to sleep rough (not that I got much sleep)
Love Manchester but in the Sun it’s something else. Sunny today and about 5c but still pretty magical, few pints in Shambles square, NQ, Deansgate, the Bars next to the canals plenty of top places for a good day in town.........actually thinking of phoning a Taxi now and going for a beer 😂 cost me about a tenner and be able to get pissed and good meal for about £60, even less depending on where you go 🥰
If you love manchester which there is nothing wrong with that but it means you haven't really seen the world really is beautiful if you know what I mean
no, are you?
7:46 cool the old McDonald's Sign I think their burgers actually tasted better back then too
And then came 911
Wouldn't worry too much - ArmaghRepublic only has 4 subscribers and one friend ! Best thing that ever happened to Manchester - Its like it is today because this happened @marria03
Wish they would of knocked down the horrid little tower you see, it’s a crap budget hotel now and looks right out of place.
What time in the video can you see it?
The Irish: working as remodelers in more ways than one.
Go on the, name all the different ways they are remodelers.
the force of South armagh south Down brigade is not untold, it was said
Any relation to Bobby Sands?
My lil boy says noob and he's 6 grow a pair my friend
Omg. The caused over £3000 in damage
Actually, damage totaled hundreds of millions penis breath
BASED irish
Irishmen who died in battle for centuries where the 'bravest of the brave', not terrorists with their bombs
Irishmen who joined the British army are not Irish. Irishmen who became freedom fighters of the Provisional I.R.A are Irish.
On behalf of the South Armagh Brigade... You're welcome for your new city centre, courtesy of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Weird how they chose Manchester tho, Manchester it’s self has irish heritage or is Irish and I’m saying this as an Irish Mancunian
Videos like this showing the aftermath of this bombing should make locals and people who live in the western world realise what sort of damage countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia faced just 10 or so years later.
When the British and American foreign policy illegally invaded Libya and Iraq, these were the types of bombs being dropped daily by fighter jets. Furthermore, the indirect consequences of these illegal invasions were even worse.
When you thought this was the Ariana Grande bombing video
but they didn't they give a total of 50 warnings they even give a warning to say your not clearing the area fast enough
@@best349, why didn't they do that in Omagh and Warrington?
@@clairefrier2353 Omagh??? = different organisation, Warrinton is diputed with heavy links to the Red Action
@@best349, 3 different locations were given for the Omagh bomb, so how could the police do their job properly?
@@clairefrier2353 as stated previously THEY WERE A DIFFERENT GROUP
only a miricle has save a lot of people Inglish we were luky Bast@@@rd
Manchester thanks the IRA as this was the best thing to happen to the city centre economy booming, largest banking sector outside London and huge investment since that day.
Nice try...
Glad my comrades did all the dirty work to clean up that mess giving Irish builders years of work.
@@liamkiiid, but they killed people in Warrington, Omagh and London Docklands, then tried to blame the authorities.
@@clairefrier2353 that was a different organisation
@@Simlife101, that was the IRA. Do your research.
Victory to the Republic! Tiocfaidh ár lá!
Manchester did no wrong, u targeted the wrong city🤣
Ooh ahh Up the RA 🇮🇪
This is very confusing.you should have made.clear what year this is.Manchester now is not bomb blasted like you show.
Its not confusing, the video was uploaded in 2011. This was the ira bomb.
That's because the bomb was in 1996 Brent
Ok sure this happend , but with an explosion as big as this & , not a scorch ???, they do make explosives to cause more damage, filming whilst walking all over a crime seene , with out a glimpse of the fire service , humm & other mob , acting , ' wounder who planted that ??? No , fire service petrol , cars people walking lazily a way , , no c b r n deployed , they have filmed from the s / z to the b / z , the explosives used are millatary, not like the I r a bombs of old , fuel & Gas they produce dark thick smoke & loads of fire I can tell you ! , they have put on a good show , don't you think , millatary explosives , mark my word , , almost like a British 911 , & still you accept it as the norm , , common there is major damage to buildings, where are the crews ie fire & rescue, would have thought they would there in nunbers, come on , please start to understand , politics are dirty & food for there media , good try ,
I was there that day and I can assure you, it happened.
Fucking beautiful what a bomb fucking excellent lol