Birmingham remembers the 1974 Pub Bombings with CD launch, Library light tribute & Cathedral memorial

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Events are taking place across Birmingham today to mark 42 years since the Birmingham Pub Bombings.Twenty one people were killed and 182 were injured when blasts ripped through the Tavern in the Town and Mulberry Bush pubs on November 21st 1974.

It’s widely thought the bombs were planted by the IRA but at the time no one admitted responsibility for the atrocity.Nor has anyone been brought to justice, and to this day the attack remains the largest unsolved mass murder on the British mainland.

Aftermath of the bombings. Credit: PA

Six men were wrongly convicted for the bombings but had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.The men became known as the Birmingham 6, and their wrongful conviction became one of the most well known miscarriages of justice in the 20th century.

Those who lost their lives were:

  • Michael William Beasley

  • Lynn Jane Bennett

  • Stanley Bodman

  • James Caddick

  • Thomas Chaytor

  • James Craig

  • Paul Davies

  • Jane Davis

  • Charles Grey

  • Maxine Hambleton

  • Anne Hayes

  • John Clifford Jones

  • Neil Marsh

  • Marilyn Nash

  • Pamela Palmer

  • Desmond Reilly

  • Eugene Reilly

  • Maureen Roberts

  • John Rowlands

  • Trevor Thrupp

  • Stephen Whalley