20 years ago today, 52 people died in a devastating series of bombings on London’s transport infrastructure. Throughout the following decades and subsequent attacks, London has remained undaunted, says Eliot Wilson

It was 8.49 am on Thursday 7 July 2005. The weather was unremarkable, edging towards 15℃, the skies partly cloudy. None of that was visible from the Tube, where, within 50 seconds, three suicide bombers detonated their devices: on the Circle Line, eastbound between Liverpool Street and Aldgate; on another Circle Line train which had just left Edgware Road for Paddington; and on the Piccadilly Line service southbound from King’s Cross St Pancras to Russell Square.

Just under an hour later, a number 30 double-decker bus, travelling from Marble Arch to Hackney Wick, exploded in Tavistock Square at 9.47am. If anyone had doubted it before – initially the explosions on the Underground were attributed to power surges – there was no longer any question: London was under attack.

The four suicide bombers, whose names I will not record here, had travelled to Luton by car that........

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