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Standing at 1 Frances Street by Woolwich Dockyard , it was built in the Nineteenth Century . In the 1881 census it is listed as the ''Kings Arms Hotel''. A Bomb made of 6lb of Gelignite with the addition of shrapnel was thrown through the window into the bar on November 7 , 1974 . Two people were killed in the explosion. Gunner Richard Dunne of the Royal Artillery was aged 42. He was off-duty. Alan Horsley, a sales clerk aged 20, also died. Responsibility for this bombing was subsequently claimed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and specifically by Martin O'Connell , who was later known as part of the gang apprehended at the Balcombe Street Siege . Some of the Guildford Four were charged with involvement in this bombing. In 1981 it became one of the pubs on the route of the London Marathon. REFERENCES |
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