The suicide bomb attack on a pop concert in Manchester which killed 22 people and left dozens injured is not the first time terrorists have targeted the city.

The heart of Manchester’s shopping district was razed to the ground by a blast in June 1996 when the Provisional IRA planted 3,300 lbs of homemade explosives in a lorry, parking what was the biggest bomb detonated in Britain since the Second World War on Corporation Street.

The following explosion was devastating but, remarkably, not fatal.

However, it did leave more than 200 people injured, including some a quarter of a mile away who were hit by flying glass.