This brings back memories for me as the Birmingham bombings were instrumental in our leaving Birmingham to live in Lincolnshire.
I was at my mum's in Sutton that night, and my step-sister worked at Bernie Inn in town.
After we saw what had happened on the TV news my step-father went into town to find her as we hadn't heard anything from her and we couldn't get through on the phone, of course my step-father wasn't allowed near the town and had to come back home without news of her.
Thankfully we finally heard from her and that she was safe.
Our three daughters were then teenagers and beginning to want go into town in the evenings, that was when we decided to leave the city for rural Lincolnshire and hopefully a safer environment for them.
It was very traumatic at the time, and sadly a tragic time for the families affected.