Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Margaret Thatcher survives an IRA bomb... 1984




Margaret Thatcher survived an IRA bomb, which shredded her bathroom barely two minutes after she had left it.

The bomb detonated at 2:54 a.m on 12 October. Thatcher was still awake at the time, working on her conference speech for the next day in her suite. It badly damaged her bathroom but left her sitting room and bedroom unscathed. 
Thatcher and her husband Denis escaped injury. 
Thatcher changed her clothes, and then was escorted by the security guards to Brighton police station. She and her husband were then taken to Sussex Police Headquarters at Lewes, where they stayed for the rest of the night.

As she left the police station she gave an impromptu interview to the BBC's John Cole at around 4:00 a.m., where she said the conference would go on as usual.

Thatcher went from the conference to visit the injured at the Royal Sussex County Hospital.

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