Major Incidents. Carol Bavin, who qualified in 1959, remembers:
In 1973, not long before the Queen visited for the 850th anniversary, there was a
bomb in the Old Bailey. It was a strange time, because the domestic staff and porters were
on strike, but they were having a meeting that afternoon. So it meant they were all on site
at Bart’s. I can hear now the sound of that bomb going off, I was on a male medical ward at
that time, and knowing that something very serious had happened. (The domestic staff and
porters returned to work immediately to help with the influx of casualties.)