Thread by @SEFFLisnaskea

SEFF's remembers those murdered in the bomb attack on a Shankill Rd furniture showroom 50 yrs ago, 11/12/71.

Harold King, 20, RC
Tracey Munn, 2, Protestant
Colin Nicholl, 17-mth Protestant
Hugh Bruce, 70, Protestant, married with 2 children.

PIRA carried out the no-warning..

..attack at lunchtime on a Sat pm. 19 others were injured, some seriously.
Harold worked in the Balmoral Furnishing store & lived at Cliftondene Cr.
Hugh was a commissionaire at the showroom. 2-yr-old Tracy & 17-mth-old Colin were being pushed in their pram on the Shankill Rd ..

..when a wall collapsed on top of them.
Tracy's mother was seriously injured & was looking after Colin while his mother was attending the funeral of her young nephew. The Jul '72 inquest was told by a 15-yr-old that he saw a green car stop at the showroom & watched as 1 of the..

..passengers got out & set a box on a step in the doorway of the premises. No organisation claimed responsibility but it was believed that PIRA attacked the showroom in retaliation for the McGurk's Bar bombing.
Tracy's mother suffered a fractured skull & pelvis.
She said she ..

..remembered walking past the showroom & the next thing she remembered was the ambulance man putting a mask over her face & some men removing some bricks from her prior to being put in the ambulance.
The funeral processions of the 2 babies met up at Cliftonpark Av with almost ..

..1,000 men walking in the cortege. As the coffins passed, people in the streets cried openly. Mr Bruce was from Duncairn Gardens. He was a member of the Royal Corps of Commissionaires and his funeral was attended by uniformed representatives of that organisation. Hugh was ...

..employed by the furniture store to check on people entering the shop.

This brutal attack stole innocent blood, with two young children having their lives extinguished. Our thoughts and prayers are with all innocents impacted by this heinous act of terror.