12:30pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
THE victims of the 7/7 bombings were remembered yesterday four years after the attacks with the unveiling of a memorial in Hyde Park.
Among the victims was Oswaldtwistle mum-of-two Marie Hartley, manager of an Altham card firm who was on the bus in Tavistock Square when a bomb exploded.
Four suicide bombers detonated their rucksack devices near these locations on the morning of July 7 2005, killing the 52 and injuring hundreds of others, some seriously.
Ms Hartley was sat on the top deck of the Number 30 bus with her colleague Camille Scott.
The two of them worked together at greeting card firm Hambledon Studios where Ms Hartley was studio manager.
They were on their way to an exhibition in Islington to recruit new artists, but the blast which ripped through the bus when it was in Tavistock Square claimed Ms Hartley's life.
A monument honouring the dead and costing nearly £1 million has been created, consisting of 52 stainless steel columns, or stelae, 11.5ft (3.5m) tall.
Each one is unique and they have been grouped together in four clusters, reflecting the separate locations of the bombings - Tavistock Square, Edgware Road, King's Cross and Aldgate.
The Prince of Wales, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and other political leaders attended the unveiling as the nation remembered those killed and injured in the atrocities on London's transport network in 2005.
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