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In total 25 tons of bombs fell on Leeds during the raid, a quarter of the 100 tons often used as the threshold for a "major raid". [ 11 ] [ 17 ] By comparison, that night in Glasgow 203 aircraft dropped 231 tons of high explosives, nearly ten times the amount dropped on Leeds, and 1,650 incendiary canisters, while in nearby Sheffield 117 ...
Beeston was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Leeds, [11] in 1866 Beeston became a separate civil parish, on 26 March 1904 the parish was abolished and merged with Holbeck [10] and became part of Leeds in 1925. In 1901 the parish had a population of 3323.
Shehzad Tanweer (15 December 1982 – 7 July 2005) [1] was a British Pakistani who was one of four Islamist terrorists who detonated explosives in three trains on the London Underground and one bus in central London during the 7 July 2005 London bombings. 52 people were killed, plus the 4 bombers themselves, and over 700 wounded in the attacks.
Elland Road, also called Elland Road Football Stadium or Elland Road Stadium, is a football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Championship club Leeds United since the club's formation in 1919. [4] The stadium is the 13th largest football stadium in England.
Khan detonated his bomb on the number 216 train, killing seven people, including himself. Shehzad Tanweer, aged 22. Also lived in Beeston, Leeds, occasionally working in his mother and father's fish and chip shop on Lodge Lane, Beeston. He detonated his bomb on the number 204 train. Eight people, including Tanweer, were killed by the explosion.
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.
27 January 1975: An IRA bomb exploded at Lewis's department store in Manchester, England. [30] Following a warning telephoned to the Press Association at 16:07 pm, the bomb exploded 17 minutes later injuring 19 people, one of them seriously. [31] Seven bombs were also planted in London, five of them exploded injuring six people. [31]
The complex is located to the south of Leeds city centre roughly on the border of Beeston, Belle Isle and Hunslet. The sports centre [specify] opened in 1996, and the Aquatics Centre opening in 2007. The stadium has been used by Leeds United for reserve matches, and since November 1995 by rugby league club Hunslet. It is the principal athletics ...