7/7: The Day London Came Under Attack

Experience the gripping account of the 7/7 Bombings: The Day London Came Under Attack. Explore the untold stories of ordinary heroes, the chilling moments, and the aftermath. Remember the lives lost on that fateful day. #NeverForget #LondonBombings

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[clairebaldwin]

My sister worked in London at the time and she was running late that morning otherwise she would have been on the bus that was attacked. She was on the bus behind it and witnessed the explosion. We didn't know if she was one of the victims for several horrifying hours. Thank you Simon for making this story. It deserves to be remembered.

[ellaeadig]

I had a friend living in London at the time and she described this as the scariest day of her life. She was nowhere near the explosions but her whole office was immediately sent home and she basically had to walk for hours to get to her flat, the whole time worrying as she passed busy places that more devices would go off.
Also, the mental image of a thousand people rushing towards the explosion sites trying to help is just so moving.

[rhijulbec]

We're Canadian. Our daughter was supposed to leave for the UK to visit relatives on that day. We didn't hear about it until we got to the airport. We contacted our relative and she said "Keep her safe~at home. There's no way of knowing if this will get bigger." It did.
Our relative's son was one of the victims. His mum didn't know yet.
She took her life three years later.
Proving that there were hundreds more victims of that most cowardly of acts~the victim's families and friends.
My heart still aches for my family. Our daughter never did get to meet the family. They were too broken to welcome a visitor. 😢

[BogWitch]

You Brits are absolute legends, with that spirit of coming together and defiantly moving forward in the face of tragedy.

[PandoraFoxxBurlesque]

A dear friend of mine was on the bus to Travistock that day. She was lucky enough to get out with her life but still lives with the aftermath to this day. She's one of the strongest and kindest people I have the privilege of knowing, working with fellow terror survivors and those at risk of radicalisation.

[marktg]

I remember all the teachers at my school being in London that day, and actually in the tube at that moment, they were on a teambuilding trip. A lot of them just weren't the same when they came back, just a lot less joyful, cheerful, and just overall unhappy. It's horrifying what things like this can do to the people that witness, let alone to people that lose loved ones in them.

[TheRocketbabydoll]

Thank you for not forgetting this horror. London has suffered before and since at the hands of terrorists but this was by far one of the worst. My heart goes out to all affected by these tragedies.

[leahbray]

I was 18, and in London that day. I’m Canadian, and my friend and I were in the UK on a trip we’d saved our part time job money for 3 years to go on after we graduated.

I have very vivid memories from that day, it was very surreal. We didn’t know what was happening, as we were evacuated from Victoria station.
We had no cell phone, but were able to call my Great Aunt, who we were staying with, and leave a voicemail that “we have no idea what’s happening, but whatever it is, we’re fine”.
We actually went to the aquarium of all places. We later learned my reading a newspaper on the ground, covered in sticky blue gunk that London had been bombed.

Really, surreal is one of the few ways I can describe that day.

[product-monster]

I was lucky enough to have been in an interview at the time the bombs went off. Colleagues of mine were on two of the trains though, and the receptionist at the company I was working for at the time was killed. We, however, were still only hearing about power surges.

I remember the day like it was all a giant haze... walking home for over an hour, talking to strangers to get information, trying to get hold of friends and family, gathering in an extremely quiet pub, and getting on an almost completely empty tube train the next morning.

May these attackers rot in hell if there is one.

[MissMentats]

My mum was one of those people. Oh gosh this made me cry

[fandommennis]

My heart goes out to the families effected by this horrible tragedy.
What happened to Jean Charles, is just heart breaking. Just a law abiding, hard working young man snuffed out in the prime of his life by being profiled or misidentified. Simply heartbreaking.
To all of those affected, my thoughts go out to you all

[rachelbarrie]

I remember hearing this news and being inconsolable until I heard from my sister that she was OK. She was catching trains to go to her job at the time this happened and when she finally got through, she knew nothing about it and was quite shocked. Little did we know she was on paid annual leave and had been visiting a close family friend.
Since then we have kept in regular contact but each time a disaster natural or otherwise, it's always been ' really?, huh ... nope no idea'. I live in New Zealand referring to earthquakes and such.

[hoppytoad]

I will never forget this day. A group from my university was on a study abroad trip in London. The time of the bombing in the Tube, people I knew could've been on the train because that section of the line was one I knew they'd use often--I'd done the trip the year before. The professor leading the trip and I were friends. I emailed the prof and was stressed to the max until I heard back from the prof that everyone had been in class at the time of the attacks and they all, thank God, were fine.

[GardinerAlan]

Londoner here - my sister was on the Underground (and then the replacement buses) that day but luckily not caught up directly. She was on the phone to me (at home) as I was trying to update her about what was going on/where was safe.

We were awarded the 2012 Olympics the day before the attacks and I went on the bus to Oxford Street the day after. Londoners are not rude, we help others and then we get on with living our lives.
I later volunteered at the London 2012 Olympics alongside 200k others and some of them were victims/helpers from 7/7.

[OrdinaryDude]

Here in the United States we like to tease our brethren in the Brittish Isles, but nothing shows the character of the British like how they come together in moments and times of tragedy. I'm glad Simon brought up the "Blitz Spirit" as that was the first thing I thought of when he started this story. The United States might have been born out of war with Britain, but I can think of no finer ally to have here and now in the present. I hope we can always say that.

[badbatch]

I was on duty that day policing Paddington station.
This day changed me drastically after my colleague's husband was killed on the bus in Tavistock Square. Something we only found out after a few days. That's how bad the devastation was.

[bettychatfield]

I was on a flight from Canada heading to London for a vacation. We landed into a mix of chaos and confusion. The van sent from the hotel to meet us had a driver who being of middle eastern descent was sacred and unsure how he was to proceed. The streets were a mass of buses, cars and people all looking numb and scared, every time a siren sounded you could see the horror as everyone looked to see where they were going and wondering if this day would ever end. It did end but it was the one vacation that I would recall for all the wrong reasons.

[Angus-McFife-nd]

I was on the Isle of Wight that day on a family holiday. I was 15 and was glued to the television all day. My younger siblings didnt understand the seriousness of this event. I just couldn't believe it had happened. A few years later i moved to London and had a friend that was 2 or 3 buses back from the explosion. She still talks about what she saw that day.

[regulusmasamuneryuku]

I didn't know this happened
Thank you for sharing. May we remember the fallen, innocent lives. May we celebrate the great acts of human kindness, and disown the hate that took far too many people, far too soon.

[MrJjones]

The sheer joy in Simon's voice when he describes that the second set of bombers were utterly incompetent is just *chefs kiss*