IT will be fifty years ago this month that two bombs planted by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded on Park Street, which leads up to Clifton from the city centre.
Just before 8pm on December 18, 1974, the first explosion sent glass and debris flying across the street. It happened shortly after a man with an Irish accent telephoned the police with a warning.
The bomb was hidden in a hold-all left outside a photographic shop which was badly damaged in the explosion. A car parked outside the shop was wrecked and the windows of the Princes Theatre Club on the first and second floors above the shop were blown out.
Fortunately, no one was killed but twenty people were injured.
The second blast occurred at three minutes past eight when a device hidden inside a dustbin outside a hearing aid shop exploded.
Shop windows up and down Park Street were shattered. There was a hole in the pavement where the second bomb exploded.
Ten people were injured including three ambulancemen who sustained neck injuries. A police inspector was knocked down onto the street by the force of the second explosion. He suffered temporary deafness.
No one has ever been charged in connection with either explosion.