The fire at Bradford City football ground on the 11th May 1985, which killed 56 people, was quite similar to this disaster, in that both disasters were started by a discarded match, dropped by someone lighting a cigarette which set rubbish that had built up underneath the different structures in each place, causing fire to spread upwards after burning for a while underneath.
I remember seeing that on 'Grandstand'. I was still 9 at the time. 1985 was a bad year for nasty accidents, and the worst year on record for the number of lives taken in one year in plane crashes...
My boyfriend remembers picking up a radio signal at the time of the fire, police and ambulance crews directed the dead to be held at a ‘makeshift mortuary’ in the parcel depots next to the over ground part of Kings Cross which no-one was meant to know about
If smoking was banned on the underground at the time how can it not be enforceable? How could a stupid “loophole” possibly allow smokers to just ignore it? Makes no sense. It should’ve been enforced rigorously and without exception. I bet it was after the disaster. But this is all too often what happens isn’t it; shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.
I used that station at that time. A long and poorly-lit connecting corridor between parts of the station had, I discovered to my horror, a dark fibrous flooring surface which at first I thought was underfelting, but turned out to be decades of PUBIC HAIR hammered into place by millions of footsteps. I am sure it is no longer there. Nor am I. I am expatriate, thank goodness. Britain is a third world country.
@@wondergirl367absolutely. Although people wouldn't smoke on the trains or platforms, they would light up as they were reaching near the top of the escalator and the exit. I was 9 years old when this happened but I remember people doing that when I used to travel on the Underground with my parents to visit my Aunt, and when we would go shopping in Central London. Also, going to football matches in London with my Dad, I would see it. Nobody thought anything of it though. Which is always the case until something like this happens.
It wasn't. It was banned in 1984 after a fire at Oxford Circus station. People would light up near the top of the escalator as they were walking towards the exit.
You obviously haven't got a clue about London by making that comment!! I'm not going to insult you at all but your comment deserves all the insults going!!
1987 on the 18 November the smoke was out of the station u wouldn't belive 35 got killed 3 or 400 police got injured thsy stopped the cleaner tgsn this happens rubbish dust and cigarettes ends it was wooden stars ways now its look nice on the underground south London loks nice sad east and north not good thsy got sue for Damages for millions 😊😊
