CHRISTOPHER Cunningham was a Warrington priest at the time of the bombings.

He was Chaplain to Warrington Hospital when the bomb went off, a site that soon after became a nigh-on warzone.

In the aftermath of the bombings which took place 30 years ago, 56 people were injured, in addition to the two young boys, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry, who were killed on the scene.

Many of the 56 who were injured were taken to Warrington Hospital, with Cannon Christopher Cunningham saying that the scenes of that day “almost feel like yesterday.”

“I remember I was making lunch; I live on my own of course, and the phone rang and it’s the hospital saying, ‘can you come in there’s been an emergency’.

“All the chaplains of various denominations went in, and I spent the next eight hours in the hospital.”

Of the many people Christopher spoke to that day, one in particular stood out.

He described speaking to Bronwen Vickers, a 32-year-old mother out shopping with her two-week-old baby whose leg had to be amputated because of the injuries she received in the attack.

Bronwen valiantly fought through physical therapy before she received the heart-breaking news, she had contracted skin cancer. She died just over a year after the attack.

Christopher also expplained how he saw the body of Tim Parry, just 12 years old when he died, being carried past him on a stretcher at one point.

“These memories will be vivid for me for a very long time after.”