Birmingham bombings: Message from the King delivered at anniversary ceremony

In memory of twenty-one victims of the bombingspublished at 10:09 Greenwich Mean Time

The first bomb exploded at around 20:18 GMT in Mulberry Bush, which was located at the bottom of the iconic Rotunda building.

Two minutes later, a second device detonated at the Tavern in the Town, a popular hangout among young adults on New Street.

In fact seven women and 14 men aged 16 to 56 were killed in the explosions and another 220 were injured.

The names of those killed were: Michael Beasley, John Rowlands, Stanley Bodman, John Clifford Jones, James Caddick, Neil Marsh, Paul Davies, Maxine Hambleton, Jane Davis, Stephen Whalley, Lynn Bennett, Desmond Reilly, Eugene Reilly, Marilyn Nash, Anne Hayes, Charles Gray, Thomas Chaytor, Pamela Palmer, Maureen Roberts, Trevor Thrupp and James Craig.