IMG_3836 The small, Protestant, Fountain neighbourhood was a focus of The Troubles (1968-98)
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IMG_3845 The Double Bastion, with a cannon called Roaring Meg, overlooks the Bogside
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IMG_3847 Nationalist Bogside murals
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IMG_3848 Bogside neighbourhood
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IMG_3850 Westward from the Derry city wall
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IMG_3851 On the Derry wall
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IMG_3852 The Grand Parade on the Londonderry Walls. Sycamores recall 13 apprentices who shut the gate against a Catholic attack in 1688
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IMG_3853 St Augustine's Church, Church of Ireland (Anglican)
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IMG_3854 This site is possibly that of St Columba's first monastery
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IMG_3855 Londonderry city wall, built 1613-18. The only surviving complete one in Ireland
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IMG_3858 The Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall, with tall fencing to protect it from thrown bombs
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IMG_3859 Children's tributes to the 13 apprentices who stopped the attack of the Catholic Earl of Antrum, by locking the gates
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