Pub where two died in IRA bombing bulldozed for flats
A HISTORIC pub where two people died and 35 were injured by an IRA bomb will be bulldozed.
Councillors have just approved developers’ plans to flatten the derelict Kings Arms, putting in its place a block of 19 flats and a new boozer.
The pub, in Woolwich, South East London, was targeted in 1974 when a shrapnel bomb was thrown through the window, killing Royal Artillery gunner Richard Dunne, 42, and 20-year-old sales clerk Alan Horsley.
The pub had been a popular watering hole for soldiers based at nearby barracks. The attack came at the height of the Troubles, just weeks after the Guildford bombings and shortly before blasts in Birmingham.
IRA members were later arrested but no one was ever prosecuted over the killings.