This collage came up on my Facebook today, so I thought as it was already a collage & I didn’t have to search for photos I’d upload it as it is.
34 years ago today the Berlin Wall border crossing at Check Point Charlie was opened & hundreds of people crossed into the West. The rest as they say is history, not only for Germany but for all Eastern Block countries.
These are some of our photos of the wall & East Berlin. ( one even has me & my MIL in it) .
I had returned to the Uk in August, because we were to be posted in Dec & I already had a job, so missed all the fun!
The Berlin Wall, well our side of it (their side was brilliant white so they had an easy target to shoot folk trying to escape the DDR), was an ever changing art canvas; the ying and yang painting, 2nd down on the left, looks as if it's brand new there, we've got later photographs of it having been painted over. You could go down to the Wall each week and see something different, it really was an amazing City during our time (1986 - 1990) for all sorts of reasons. Mum came out several times and I think enjoyed it, a shame that Dad was too ill to see it.
The four photographs in the upper right quadrant are what I was able to take during my helicopter flight around the city; shame I wasn't allowed to actually take photographs of the installations I actually worked at (well not legally).
I love Berlin, it's a fabulous city (then and now) and the residents are great; I know I keep saying it, but we really must go back soon
The four photographs in the upper right quadrant are what I was able to take during my helicopter flight around the city; shame I wasn't allowed to actually take photographs of the installations I actually worked at (well not legally).
I love Berlin, it's a fabulous city (then and now) and the residents are great; I know I keep saying it, but we really must go back soon