Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.023020

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / Henning Christoph [name handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed label: 1. This is the wall that separates the Protestants from the Catholics in / Londonderry , Northern Ireland. The children playing on the wall are / Protestants. Those below the wall are Catholics. The cannon (Roaring / Meg a historical remnant of 1689 stands guard over Nailor’s Row, the / beginning o the Boggside Catholic ghetto. In the background stands / the Reverend George Walker Memorial, a constant reminder to Boggside / that the Protestants held Londonderry against the Catholic siege.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: NORTHERN IRELAND / CIVIL WAR
Retouching: N