Building    From 13/8/1961  To 9/11/1989

Berlin Wall

Categories: Politics & Administration

Countries: Germany

Erected by East Germany to isolate West Berlin (run by the US, the UK and France) from East Berlin and the rest of the surrounding East Germany (under control of the Soviet Union). It effectively imprisoned the inhabitants of East Berlin and was a symbol of the Cold War. In November 1989, for reasons too momentous to describe here, the political will to enforce the barrier failed and protesters were allowed to begin demolishing the wall.

Sections of the wall were distributed around the world and other pieces are in London at: the National Army Museum, Chelsea and at the sports hall of the German School, Richmond.

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Berlin Wall

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Berlin Wall - SE1

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William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke

William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke

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Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Property

1 memorial
F. Brader

F. Brader

Alderman in the Borough of Hammersmith in 1948. Our colleague Andrew Behan has researched this man: Frederick Brader was born about 1880 and in late 1914 he married Lilian Soper in Fulham, their s...

Person, Law, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor P. Bridger

Councillor P. Bridger

Councillor on the Bethnal Green Housing Committee in 1937.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Councillor Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh

Councillor Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh

Sadashivrao Nanasaheb Deshmukh was elected to the London Borough of Camden as a Labour Party candidate in 1990 in the Bloomsbury Ward. He was re-elected to the council in 1994 serving in the South ...

Person, Politics & Administration, India

2 memorials
Alfred F. Barnard

Alfred F. Barnard

Mayor of Bethnal Green 1908 - 1909.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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World War 2

World War 2

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Event, Armed Forces, Tragedy

379 memorials
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

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Person, Royalty, Seriously Famous

126 memorials
Mary Anne Clarke

Mary Anne Clarke

Mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York. Born in Ball and Pin Alley, White's Alley, Chancery Lane as Mary Anne Thompson, she married Clarke, a stonemason who became bankrupt. She 'went bad' but ...

Person, Friend / family, France

1 memorial
Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poet and Jesuit priest. Born 87 The Grove, Stratford, of Welsh ancestry. 1852 the family moved to Hampstead and GMH attended Highgate School where he flourished. At Oxford University he converted ...

Person, Poetry, Religion, Ireland

4 memorials