On the 21st December 1988, a bomb exploded on a plane 31,000 feet in the air, 259 people were killed on board with sections of the aircraft landing in the town of Lockerbie in Scotland.
Several houses were destroyed and one family lost four members.
30 years later, the Church of Scotland is marking the anniversary of this event which changed the town by doing a silent ‘walk of peace’ and a special remembrance service at Tundergarth Parish Church.
Geoff Brown, a Church of Scotland reader and the Moderator of the Presbytery of Annandale and Eskdale – just a few miles away from Lockerbie – told Premier he was meant to be in Lockerbie that night, until he got a phone call from a friend to rearrange the time:
“I was actually here at home in Moffat, which is about 14 miles away.
“We had intended to go visit friends that evening in Lockerbie because I previously lived in… the Lockerbie community and we were taking parcels down to them but we were supposed to actually be there during the time when the air disaster took place but they had phoned to change the time so we were at home at the time…but you could hear the noise and the sky lit up.”
Geoff described the following week in the area: “It was a very difficult time, very sad, the whole community had that feeling of loss and grief and wondering what you could do to support the people of Lockerbie.”
When asked how the…
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