Walton's Restaurant bombing

On Tuesday evening 18 November 1975 an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang, without warning, threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant in Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen others. == Background == The IRA began a bombing campaign in England in 1973 when they exploded a car bomb outside the Old Bailey on 8 March of that year.

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Walton's Restaurant bombing

On Tuesday evening 18 November 1975 an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang, without warning, threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant in Walton Street, Knightsbridge, London, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen others. == Background == The IRA began a bombing campaign in England in 1973 when they exploded a car bomb outside the Old Bailey on 8 March of that year.

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