Jurors have visited the scenes of the Birmingham pub bombings as part of inquests into the deaths of the 21 victims.
Guarded by private security officers, the 11 men and women, whose identities cannot be revealed for legal reasons, made the ten-minute walk from where the hearings are taking place in Bull Street, to New Street and nearby St Martin's Queensway.
Hearings into the deaths in the 1974 bombings got under way at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre this week after a 44-year wait for the bereaved families.
Opening the inquests earlier this week, coroner Sir Peter Thornton told jurors they would hear evidence of how the two bombs ripped apart two pubs on what was a "perfectly ordinary evening" on the night of 21 November.
The twin blasts, detonating in "massive explosions" just minutes apart inside the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, brought "devastation", jurors heard.
Today, for the first time, the six women and five men went to see the scenes as they are today, more than four decades on.
The escorted group met the coroner first at what was the site of the old Mulberry Bush pub, at the foot of the city's iconic Rotunda.
There he pointed out the frontage of what was the pub but which is now a blank grey wall forming part of the retail units in the city centre.
Sir Peter showed the jury a floor plan and photographs of the pub as it was in the 1970s.
Then at 10.20am, walking past the Odeon cinema in New Street, he took them to what was once the basement pub the Tavern in the Town, in King Edward House.
Once the jurors had left the premises, legal representatives for other parties, including the victims' families, were shown down the flight of 19 stairs.
Inside they were shown the interior, although the pub itself is now a Chinese buffet restaurant.
The inquest continues.
