Triumph over terror

DAPPLED in brilliant July sunshine, Tavistock Square is again a haven of tranquility in a city of constant turbulence, a few withered bouquets of flowers in a corner of its gardens are the only visible reminders of the horror which engulfed it one year ago tomorrow.

The wall plaque marking where Charles Dickens once lived and Blitz firefighters once died are testimonies to how it has witnessed this city’s heights of civilisation and depths of barbarism.

However, nothing could prepare the quiet Bloomsbury square for the moment it was suddenly flashed across TV screens around the globe as the bloody epicentre of London under attack.