Comments on: Ross McWhirter and the Balcombe Street gang

By: nickelinthemachine

nickelinthemachine — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:09:26 +0000

Thank you.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:56:27 +0000

Interesting stuff. Did John and Sheila give their account of what happened, do you know? Greatly appreciate your writings by the way. Most blogs are dross, but this is a class apart. Several classes actually.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:07:08 +0000

Thanks for fixing the link. The Deputy Headteacher of my old school died a month or so ago after a long and valuable life teaching hundreds of children. Alf Knott had survived being shot by the IRA in Greenwich in the mid-1970s. I don’t know if it was the same people as the Balcombe St Gang. Why was he shot? Oh, the IRA had got the wrong house and intended to shoot an army officer in the same road.

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By: graham warley

graham warley — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:08:11 +0000

It was very interesting to read this blog. I was a young salesman with a patch that covered businesses in Central London during the IRA campaign at this time. You are entirely correct in calling the comments by Wimble idiotic.

Terrorism contributes nothing to the cause, merely pain and suffering to innocent people.

I well remember the fear I felt as I walked the London streets wondering if the next parked car I passed had a bomb under it. I was close to Fleet Street on the day when a bomb went off outside an office block near the Old Bailey and the panic caused was horrific.

As a born and bred Londoner congratulations on a very interesting series of blogs.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:08:45 +0000

Wimble you have yet again a very simplistic view of the hero Irish and the Evil British. You American by any chance. What amazes me is 9/11 comes along and everyone wants a war on terror, the same people that used to give money to these filth.
I know many in the south of Ireland who detest the IRA and you should read their agenda, it isn’t just ‘getting the North back’ (although if you knew Irish History you would also know Ulster has always been fiercely independemt even back to the hound of Culann and King Conchobar. It is about taking over Ireland, these people also made quite efficient Gangsters, murdering any Irishman that opposed them.
As for Gibralter, it wants to be British, not Spanish FACT.
British Imperialism has a lot to answer for as does American Imperialism both in its attrocoties against the Natives and also in its handling of Iraq, Nam etc. It is the human way.
Whatever though it does not excuse blowing up innocent people or do you think the twin towers also deserved what they got. I don’t

By: McKay Edwards

McKay Edwards — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:49:33 +0000

I was an American college student living in Onslow Gardens, South Ken in 1975. I think I may have heard the Walton’s Restaurant bomb on November 18th. Do you know the time of day that it went off? Evening sometime? I remember the dates because Bruce Springseen was playing Hammersmith Odeon on the 18th and 19th – I went on the 19th. Strange how normal life was in London during the bombings – tribute to the British “stiff upper lip”.

Best regards to my English friends,

McKay Edwards, Moab, Utah USA

By: tony

tony — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:20:01 +0000

I was a young boy at the time of the Mount street bomb about 13 years old, my nan was the housekeeper at a block of flats a few doors down from the Tratoria, lucky for us we were all in Manchester when it went off, lucky as nan used to eat there quite regularly

By: nickelinthemachine

nickelinthemachine — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:28:48 +0000

Oh shut up you idiot. I have total sympathy for the Irish situation over the last few hundred years. I just don’t like murderers who consider themselves heroes. And nor does any other decent person.

By: wimble

wimble — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:05:44 +0000

Your finished with a hmm, it does not seem to want to realise that when people are oppressed and robbed of their rights, dignity, land and their part in ruling their, not your, society, some of those people will do the most awful things to halt the oppression, 700 years of it. One day, some century, you will find another excuse to have another go, then your pomposity will suffer another defeat. There is nothing nice about these people, but unlike the British(London)Government, they don’t seem to need to pretend to be.
You like the airbrush technique, just like all apologists for a big lie, Gibraltar, all the kids in Derry, Michael Tighe and many others. That would amount for normal I suppose.