Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Moving article about London buses on 7/7
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/july-7-terror-attack-how-londons-...
Very good London Centric article about how the buses got everyone home on 7/7, despite resistance from central government. Very moving - brought back a lot of feelings from that day.
I was on the Piccadilly line that morning, possibly on the exact train that was attacked, but switched to the Victoria line at Finsbury Park - by the time it reached Oxford Circus, we were kicked off and told there was a big electrical fault on the system. I walked from there to work in Holland Park, where I found out what had really happened. Can't remember how I got home later except that it took a very long time!
A couple of months later I was visiting friends up North and people asked me how I felt about living in London now - I couldn't think what they were talking about, as by then we'd all put it behind us and resumed normal behaviour. I think a lot more people started cycling after that though.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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I was at Camden Town Hall that day. I ended up working at a first aid and rest centre that was set up in the council chamber to take in the walking wounded from Russell Square station. What people were desperate for was access to a landline to let their families and friends know they were ok as the mobile phone network was taken down. When I eventually headed home at about 8pm I had to walk to Clerkenwell then up to St John Street and Upper Street to the top of Essex Road. The 341 bus was the most welcome sight of the day. I think bus drivers are the forgotten heros from that day. After the terrible bombing of the bus in Tavistock Square and the fear that there were other bombs still out there no one would have blamed any driver for not wanting to take their bus out - but they did.
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