Manchester Georgina Pellant - 12th June 2026 Today marks three whole decades since an explosion from the inside of a lorry parked on Corporation Street shattered windows and destroyed buildings across the city centre. Causing an evisceration that stretched for miles, when the 1,500 kilogram IRA bomb went off in 1996, it was the biggest detonation in Great Britain since the Second World War. Following the explosion, the city fell silent – leaving rack, rubble and ruin in its wake.