What were you doing on 7/7?

[Kardan]

Well, there was a thread on 9/11 and most of us were too young to fully understand the severity of it - so I thought what it was like on 7/7? Of course, it wasn't as deadly - but surely it would've have affected most of us more considering the majority of us live or know someone that lives in London?

So, what were you doing when the London Bombings happened?

Personally, we didn't find about it till Lunch. I was in Year 8, and our form teacher didn't show up for afternoon registration. She turned up a few minutes and came in and told us 'London has been bombed'. I automatically had the opinion that it was full on destruction, as in an atomic bomb and paniced quite a bit. We had English next, and my teacher's husband was in London and she got a phone call from him during the lesson to say he was fine.

[dirrty]

probably at school

[buttons]

we were sitting watchin some football match in school in hall (cinema tv :8) and our teacher stopped it to put on the news talking bout it, didn't majory affect me anyway.

[Immenseman]

Urgh, I found out in a ******* vile way. This chav at my school started beating this kid called "Azeem" up because he was muslim, afterwards I was getting the gossip "why did he do that" and I found out it was because muslims had bombed London. As he was hitting him he was producing taunts aimed at Azeem as if it was him personally who inflicted the bombings.

[Loser]

Planning to go to the cinema, via the train. Trains were cancelled because of it. Frst London's terorrised, then I don't get to go to the cinema. Was an awful day.

[Rozi]

Um, I was in year 6 and they didn't tell us until the end of the day saying "There has been some major trouble with the transport, you will have to ring your parent if you use the bus and get them to collect you." I didn't find out until I got home and was on neopets. I felt betrayed by the teachers :(

[Bun]

i was rehearsing for a prize night for my school lol, we got the day off for it. it was surreal though cos it was like a rumour going round at first and everybody was really nervous.

[JackBuddy]

Was sports day when I was at school, I remember it was initally thought to be a power surge and then I was crapping myself worried about my sister and parents!

[cocaine]

year 7, a message got sent through to some guy in P.E, it was from his dad and it said "i'm alright, i wasn't involved in it", which left us like ":S eh?"

then some guy was on bbc news on his phone and he said that there had been some bombings. so in maths we just talked about the severity of it all for the whole lesson.

in science the teacher put on jurassic park (like anyone was watching it) and spent the entire lesson in the corrider trying to contact her parents. also around school there were a few people crying because they either couldn't contact their parents who they knew were on trains or because something had happened to them. either way, a grim day.

[efq]

year 7, a message got sent through to some guy in P.E, it was from his dad and it said "i'm alright, i wasn't involved in it", which left us like ":S eh?"

then some guy was on bbc news on his phone and he said that there had been some bombings. so in maths we just talked about the severity of it all for the whole lesson.

in science the teacher put on jurassic park (like anyone was watching it) and spent the entire lesson in the corrider trying to contact her parents. also around school there were a few people crying because they either couldn't contact their parents who they knew were on trains or because something had happened to them. either way, a grim day.
I was actually watching Sky News at the time when the Breaking News came on, I was ill that day.

[Xarea]

Walking home, I have to walk over a bridge which has those signs that give you traffic information. It had this on it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg/250px-Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg

(It says: AVOID LONDON, AREA CLOSED, TURN ON RADIO)

I ran home and put the TV on cause I could tell something was uppppp.

[kk.]

i was at school and i remember thinking 'oh the french are pissed cus we won the olympics'.

and then trhe 21/7 i was on holiday, jeez that was scary coming home lol

[mangle]

I was in Germany, my Dad was in London and I was ******** myself.

I managed to ring him though so it was all good.

[Geraint]

I was in school, found out when I got home. Remember going to play football later and talking about it.

I remember exactly where I was on 9/11 aswell.

[Loser]

Walking home, I have to walk over a bridge which has those signs that give you traffic information. It had this on it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg/250px-Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg

(It says: AVOID LONDON, AREA CLOSED, TURN ON RADIO)

I ran home and put the TV on cause I could tell something was uppppp.

Wow! You noticed something was dangerous after being warned of danger?

[Ashhizzle]

What day & time, I'll let you know :P

:) probably school though

[Barmi]

i was rehearsing for a prize night for my school lol, we got the day off for it. it was surreal though cos it was like a rumour going round at first and everybody was really nervous.
Same same. (:rolleyes:)

I do remember checking the BBC News website on my phone. But the true extent wasn't really clear until after watching Sky News at home.

[PaintYourTarget]

I was in year 7 when 9/11 happened, god I feel old.
But yeah, just heard a few things about it from people who were on the PC's or got texts through, didn't see it all 'till I got home.

[Geraint]

Seeing pictures that people have taken sends shivers down my spine. Not a nice thing, at all.

[Xarea]

Wow! You noticed something was dangerous after being warned of danger?

Sure did :)!

[Mikey]

i was on school holidays? turned on the tv watching this morning or something and then ITV news popped up. Watched the news for 4 hours ******** myself even tho i'm in scotland

[LoveToStack]

I was in Mallorca, down at the bar when it came on the television. I went up to tell my parents and they didn't believe me. I only actually understood the severity when I was relaying it back to them.

[5,5]

idk, wasent that big a deal in the us

[Brody]

was in school watching some film when i found out and people were bricking it.

i remember thinkin it was the french because we got the olympics a few days before.

i was bricking it because like 2 days later i had to go to france and was like Hope eurostar dont get bombed:(

[kk.]

Yet the world stops when something happens in the US

[Kardan]

I spoke to my parents, and they remember when 9/11 happened, but not 7/7.

[LoveToStack]

I spoke to my parents, and they remember when 9/11 happened, but not 7/7.

Even though I feel they should acknowledge 7/7 too, thing is when you look at 9/11 it is on a totally different scale.

[kk.]

Possibly because it was the start of a lot of things?? Like the war on terrorism. It was the first of this generations shocks really

[J0SH]

I was at school I think, bus 36 is a common bus that people at our school take :(

[LoveToStack]

I just think 9/11 was totally unbelievable in the literal sense of the word. 7/7 was bad and everything but a bomb in a tube station is never going to be the same as two planes bringing down skyscrapers.

[efq]

When I was watching it, it was a scary moment. I still remember watching 9/11 on CNN and seeing the second plane hit it. Although I cannot seem to remember 7/7 as much as I remember 9/11

[kk.]

A bomb? There were about 5 lol. And then the copycats 2 weeks later? It's your own country, you should remember it as much a u remember 9/11

[LoveToStack]

Both are distant memories but I can remember a clear image of watching CNN with my sister, both being total kids at the time on 9/11.

[xxMATTGxx]

I was in school, my lesson was history and I remember having the TV on ready to watch some history film. Then BBC news came on (before he put DVD in) and showed it to the class. Then that's when the teacher told us about it.

[OmgitsAmanda]

i was in turkey in the pool and i remember it was on the TVs in the bar. i think i was 11

[5,5]

Yet the world stops when something happens in the US
9/11 was way bigger than 7/7 so idk what your on about.

[Swearwolf]

i was in school in an IT lesson, i also remember being on the bus home from school on 9/11

[Titch]

Was on a train coming into london victoria, it suddenly stopped and we were told nothing for about an hour. Suddenly about 10 police came into train and were checking bags and explaining to people what happened, we were stuck there for like 3 hours till they finally went into london vic where they was a HUGE police presence and they made us go str8 out of station which had been closed. i was soo scared, i thought i was guna get bombed and die lol.

[9y]

I was on a cruise in the middle of the medeterainian (sp) celebrating my mothers birthday!

[Con]

I feel young as I was too young to fully understand what this was really :8
I'm pretty sure I was year 6 :P So we didn't find out till an assembly. :)

Can't remember what I thought of it

[PaintYourTarget]

I don't know if anyone read FHM this month, but they had a list of the most disappointing things in the world, one of them being "All news Post 9/11".

[Mitch4?]

i didnt even hear about it till like september

[Kardan]

i didnt even hear about it till like september

How? Did you literally stay away from all media and communication for like... two months? You must've been living in a cave or something?

[Bef]

I was actually on a flight to Spain, we heard the rumor when we landed but it wasnt until we saw a paper that evening that we knew about it proper.

[LoveToStack]

Was on a train coming into london victoria, it suddenly stopped and we were told nothing for about an hour. Suddenly about 10 police came into train and were checking bags and explaining to people what happened, we were stuck there for like 3 hours till they finally went into london vic where they was a HUGE police presence and they made us go str8 out of station which had been closed. i was soo scared, i thought i was guna get bombed and die lol.

That would have been so scary.

[-mad-monkey-]

tbh 7/7 means nothign to me

its like nothing at all when compared to other disasters

[PaintYourTarget]

tbh 7/7 means nothign to me

its like nothing at all when compared to other disasters
Yeah, a well planned and coordinated attack against 4 heavily populated targets in a major city center which threw a nation into panic and chaos for days and had a huge effect on the economy and people's ease of life isn't that important at all really.

[Jamie!]

Bashing the Bishop if I remember correctly.

[CJW93]

Walking home, I have to walk over a bridge which has those signs that give you traffic information. It had this on it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg/250px-Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg



(It says: AVOID LONDON, AREA CLOSED, TURN ON RADIO)

I ran home and put the TV on cause I could tell something was uppppp.


Good Old A13?

I was is school and a teacher turned on the tv everyone was just dead silent.
I was in year 8

[Cypher-]

I remember that day so well, when I found out about it I had slept in and left my computer signed in with msn and all still on and China (Pweetyful) from Habbo had messaged me to tell me about it as she lives in London. Then just went down and watched the news, was a shocking time for Britain :(

[ToxicPaddy]

In Spain on holiday. I remember me thinking about coming home the next day on a plane, I was really scared :(

[jimi]

I was in school the day that it happened, the teachers gathered us around and talked to us about it. A couple of people was crying due to their parents being on a train that day, she let us have the whole lesson contacting our parents and watching BBC news. I remember 9/11 and 7/7 like yesterday, I remember traveling over New York just after it happened I was SOO nervous especially when the plane went threw turbulance right above new york

[Crimson]

I was in school, cant fully remember what lesson etc, but I remember a teacher coming into the lesson and quietly talking to my friend at the back of the classroom and he burst out crying and had to go out of the lesson.

Then we all found that his dad was in london that day. However he was totally fine as he was no where near the bombings.

[BeanEgg]

I was at school, then are teacher just informed us. Previously during the day we heard all the emergency services going round but just ignored it.
We left school at round 1pm, some stayed till 3pm.

There was an ambulance on standby beside our school which was quite scary if you get what I mean.

One of my teachers had just got off on a previous stop apparently but I was gullible back in the days.

[Ramones]

i was eating a plate of chips

[lPinoy]

I was at home, eating breakfast when I saw my parents watching the news. God, it was the scariest 7 hours of my life when we were waiting till' my brother came home cause he took the train that day. :(

[Jamie!]

Bashing the Bishop if I remember correctly.
I was watching the news as well...

:$

[Jordy]

I didn't find out till the day after, I was in the South of France on holiday and I was playing football with some Irish Lads who mentioned it but didn't seem to make much of a big deal out of it, it was only when I started looking at the Newspapers I saw how big it actually was.

[Slowpoke]

In school and we found out at about lunch time. When we went in for afternoon tutor the class opposite ours had the TV on and there must of been about eighty odd of us crowding round all whispering about it. A few kids we're crying because their parents were in London.

[Blinger1]

7/7 wth is that?
Nobody here really cares about 7/7.. so i guess i was asleep?

[dirrty]

7/7 wth is that?
Nobody here really cares about 7/7.. so i guess i was asleep?
london bombings

[Nixt]

Oh I remember it like it was yesterday! I was at school, we were all playing football in the tennis courts and there was an announcement over the tannoy. Now the day before they had done a tannoy announcement saying London had been awarded the Olympics for 2012, so we assumed it was the same announcement again (looking back on it, it was stupid!). We all cheered and shouted "COME ON LONDON" etc etc (cringe).
I then went to the dentist, and when I was halfway there my aunty saw me and picked me up. On the way to the dentist she was like "HAVE YOU HEARD?" I was like, "about what?" and the explanation ensued. It then clicked what the tannoy was about and when I got back to school I explained to all my mates what had happened and we were all stood there in shock.

[Blinger1]

london bombings
Right... it was a bit like this in australia:

London was bombed. Two terrorists drove a car into the airport, hardly anyone hurt. Man was on fire telling the cops to kill him.

Thats it.

[BowTies1]

Right... it was a bit like this in australia:

London was bombed. Two terrorists drove a car into the airport, hardly anyone hurt. Man was on fire telling the cops to kill him.

Thats it.

i think your getting mixed up with Glasgow airport attack and the london bombings

[Blinger1]

well then. never heard of this london bombings?

[Nixt]

well then. never heard of this london bombings?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings

[Blinger1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
yeh,.. doesn't ring a bell :(

[Firework]

i think i was crying cuz my sister was in london on that day & they we're going onto the underground onto a train where the bomber was & then someone said they needed the toilet so the person who needed the toilet basically saved there life:)

[Jordy]

i think i was crying cuz my sister was in london on that day & they we're going onto the underground onto a train where the bomber was & then someone said they needed the toilet so the person who needed the toilet basically saved there life:)tbh I was waiting for that story.

[Recursion]

Well, there was a thread on 9/11 and most of us were too young to fully understand the severity of it - so I thought what it was like on 7/7? Of course, it wasn't as deadly - but surely it would've have affected most of us more considering the majority of us live or know someone that lives in London?

So, what were you doing when the London Bombings happened?

Personally, we didn't find about it till Lunch. I was in Year 8, and our form teacher didn't show up for afternoon registration. She turned up a few minutes and came in and told us 'London has been bombed'. I automatically had the opinion that it was full on destruction, as in an atomic bomb and paniced quite a bit. We had English next, and my teacher's husband was in London and she got a phone call from him during the lesson to say he was fine.

LOL You'd have died pretty quick babes. ;]

I was at home ill and no one in our family works in London so it was kai (:

[Technologic]

Walking home, I have to walk over a bridge which has those signs that give you traffic information. It had this on it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg/250px-Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg

(It says: AVOID LONDON, AREA CLOSED, TURN ON RADIO)

I ran home and put the TV on cause I could tell something was uppppp.

If i saw that the first thing i'd think would be "Zombies"

[Loser]

If i saw that the first thing i'd think would be "Zombies"

Too much TV?

[Kardan]

LOL You'd have died pretty quick babes. ;]

I was at home ill and no one in our family works in London so it was kai (:

Actually, if an atomic bomb the size of the ones used in WWII was dropped over my position, it would only directly kill my village, about 10,000 people. Wouldn't even get to Leicester's City Centre which is 4 miles away.

[Naruto!]

It was the day after my birthday, I was in school [year 6] and they said something about them, then I was in a lesson and some office lady walks in the door saying my mums at the reciption here to pick me up.. then my mum tells me how we dont know where my uncle is as its going straight to voicemail etc (he works right near kings cross) and then he phoned like 3 hours later

[Ohirian]

I was travelling to school.
It was kind of freaky as the train which blew up at Edgeware road was opposite the tube I got on at Wimbledon.

[-mad-monkey-]

Yeah, a well planned and coordinated attack against 4 heavily populated targets in a major city center which threw a nation into panic and chaos for days and had a huge effect on the economy and people's ease of life isn't that important at all really.

I'm telling the truth - I live in Glasgow, the only way 7/7 made any difference to me is that it was on the news alot. Glasgow attack had much the same effect - but was funnier. Not that 7/7 was at all funny.

[jesus]

skating in madchester

[Twist]

Found out the morning that it happened. Our school didn't really give two ***** about it though.

[Rarelime]

In the south of France on a school trip.

[Abbie.]

i was in portugal and the only channel i had in english was bbc news LOL.

[Twist]

Walking home, I have to walk over a bridge which has those signs that give you traffic information. It had this on it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg/250px-Avoid_London_%282005-07-07%29.jpg

(It says: AVOID LONDON, AREA CLOSED, TURN ON RADIO)

I ran home and put the TV on cause I could tell something was uppppp.
I probably would of thought it was something like worldwide.

[Lee]

I was celebrating my birthday, and almost getting a train down to london with mates to celebrate! I know this may sound like a lie but it was true, we decided not to go on the 6th though!

[PaulMacC]

7/7/07
That was my mum/dad's wedding.

[Jord]

On holiday it was summer holidays this happened right? I remember reading about bombings happening in london when I was in turkey

[Kardan]

7/7/07
That was my mum/dad's wedding.

It happened in 2005 :P

And it wasn't the summer holidays for me, no. My area breaks up in the second week of July.

[Sunny.]

Was at home just came back from news agents. Put TV on and saw it on there.
I was in london the day before though, site seeing O.o

[Jesus-Egg]

I was in year 10, and I remember coming back to school after lunch, and we had French. One on my friends was saying he had heard that a bus had exploded in London, and we persuaded the teacher to put the tv on. So we were basically just watching the news all lesson. I don't remember what I had after that, but when I got home, I put the news straight on.

[Pix]

I was in my class in primary and the teacher was like 'ok kids im gonna tell yous something but dont get upset' and then she told us about it and nearly all of the class started crying and we got sent home lmao.

[Anvrew]

tbvh, I was probely playing habbo :/
i don't live in the uk btw.