1990 Eltham bombing
On 14 May 1990, a bomb attack on the headquarters of the Royal Army Educational Corps in Eltham, southeast London injured seven people. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) claimed responsibility in a statement from Belfast, its first in a mainland bombing campaign targeting 'soft' military targets. Three men and three women, all civilians, were taken to a nearby hospital in Greenwich. A seventh person did not require hospital treatment. The bomb contained up to of plastic explosive and was hidden in a flowerbed at Eltham Palace - which could have easily killed many. Casualties were kept low  by thin nylon film on the windows, which protected it from the flying glass. The attack caused extensive damage to the building and parked cars. The Corps left the centre in Eltham in 1992. Two days later, an IRA bomb in a military facility at Wembley killed a soldier.