PHOTOGRAPHS : RADIO TIMES COLLECTION

Object Name: Photographic Print
Maker: Press Association Ltd (Primary maker)
Date Made: 19/08/1971
19/08/1971
Place Made: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Londonderry
Londonderry
Description: Photograph of armed soldiers watching a group of children play in the sun in a Derry street: caption reads 'As They Cleared the barricades in Derry ... Scenes in the streets of this city as troops dismantled the barricades today. There was resistance to the clearance and the Army used rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse the crowds. But in sunlit streets children still found time for their games and in one case to sit with the sentries watching over the operation'.
Materials: paper
Catalogue Number: BELUM.W2013.24.55
Copyright: National Museums NI

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