Heir Heinz Birch unveiling the 1976 plaque: Herr Heinz Birch, Mayor Clifford Scott, Terry MacCarthy (National Museum of Labour History), and Cuban Revolutionary Lionel Sotto; 1976.
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How Eastbourne Got it’s Engels Plaque

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This story starts in 1975, before the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall (of course), at the London Embassy for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).  The GDR were surprised […]