Pause for thought as city centre workers and shoppers came together to remember the 96
THOUSANDS of people stopped their shopping or took time out of their working day yesterday to remember Hillsborough.
In Exchange Flags, office workers gathered together behind Liverpool town hall to observe the two minutes’ silence at 3.06pm.
Many wore football shirts and scarves, both red and blue, as they stood silently paying their respects.
The sun broke through the clouds as people gathered in a circle, with strangers linking hands. Others watched from the windows of offices in the square.
Marked by the city council, a small bell in the centre of the square was struck 96 times, in tandem with the city’s churches and Cathedral bells, to commemorate each of the lives lost.
Fran Bayliss, 51, of Kirkby, said the short ceremony had been an emotional one.
“It was really special to come together like this and show we still remember them,” she said.
“They will never be forgotten.”
Douglas Firhurst, 76, retired, from Wirral, said: “It was tremendous, that people that have never met before come together in this way.
“Some of us are Evertonians but it doesn’t matter on a day like today. “
