On August 13 1994 at 5.57pm Bognor Regis trembled when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded in the town centre.

A mountain bike, hired in London by the IRA, was used to conceal a Semtex device which was then wheeled into Bognor. The blast damaged 15 shops on London Road and littered the street with broken glass. The bicycle had been locked to a post outside Woolworths and the explosion had left the front of the building in tatters.