The first bomb exploded at around 20:18 GMT at The Mulberry Bush, which was at the bottom of the city’s iconic Rotunda building.

Two minutes later, a second device detonated at Tavern in the Town, a New Street hangout popular with young adults.

A total of seven women and 14 men aged between 16 and 56 died in the blast and 220 others were injured.

The names of those killed were: Michael Beasley, John Rowlands, Stanley Bodman, John Clifford Jones, James Caddick, Neil Marsh, Paul Davies, Maxine Hambleton, Jane Davis, Stephen Whalley, Lynn Bennett, Desmond Reilly, Eugene Reilly, Marilyn Nash, Anne Hayes, Charles Gray, Thomas Chaytor, Pamela Palmer, Maureen Roberts, Trevor Thrupp, and James Craig.

image source, Birmingham Inquiries