The Red Staircase
Posted on January 30, 2009 - Filed Under Berlin, Berliners | 1 Comment
To celebrate the coming 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall in November, a mobile infobox with information on the ‘Peaceful Revoultion’, together with a red staircase were opened yesterday. From now until November, they will be found at different locations in the city. Places that have changed dramatically since 1989. The red staircase […]
Read More..>>Street Name signs in Berlin - 1. Feeling at home
Posted on January 28, 2009 - Filed Under Berlin, London, Streetsigns | 1 Comment
‘Town twinning’ became very popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was seen as a way of bringing together communities that only a few years previously had been enemies and at war. Most of the West Berlin Boroughs were twinned with places in the U.K., in particular with London Boroughs.
The Berlin Borough of […]
Trolleybuses in Harringay
Posted on January 26, 2009 - Filed Under Buses, London, Transport | 6 Comments
This entry was originally posted on Harringay online last year and was meant for a local North London readership.
I grew up in Harringay and Tottenham in the late 1950s and 1960s. Right from an early age, I developed an interest in Public Transport and I’ve always thought that this was probably due to the withdrawal […]
