Nottingham Irish Centre
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Nottingham Irish Centre
Image: © David Lally Taken: 19 Apr 2009
On Wilford Road. In the late 1970s when the IRA was still in the habit of planting bombs on the British mainland a fellow student of mine ran a mobile disco, he was studying mining engineering and took holiday jobs in the Nottinghamshire coalfield. I am not sure how it came about but one night he had a booking here at the Irish Centre and I helped him with the set-up. We were on our second or third trip up the stairs and carrying his boxes of 6" singles, when he suddenly stopped in front of me and I nearly fell over him. "What's up?" I said. "Where are we?" said he. "The Irish Centre" "What does it say on these boxes?" I looked for the first time at the markings on these boxes I was carrying, so well sized for singles that I had never thought that they might have been designed to carry anything else. "Nobel Explosives" I said.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.948108
Longitude
-1.15157