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** Hannover Quay is now formally marked and signposted once more. The Quay on Harbourside, an area originally known as Canons Marsh, was named after our twin city back in the mid-1990s along with the Bordeaux and Porto Quays. Bristol City Council policy officers Stephen Hewitt and Dammy Legrand worked with the planning and Legible City teams to make it happen. The original signs were unveiled during the 50th anniversary of the twinning by the Lord Mayor and the Oberbürgermeister. The sign was damaged more than a year ago but has now been replaced by a more robust replacement - looking...

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Dear friends in Bristol, I send you some photos from Hannover in this very special time and I hope you will have a little bit of joy. In the city we have some Christmas Markets, one of them near the station at the Ernst-August-Place. At the wooden stand you can buy many sweets - watched by King Ernst August on his horse. Every year children come to the shop window of the Galeria Kaufhof. They have so many fun with the soft toys in very different scenes. In the photo here you can seen a castle with many figures all in motion. A very big attraction every year is the 18m high...

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** Jill Gallard CMG, HE Ambassador to Germany, commented positively on the significance of twinning in the post-Brexit situation during a webinar organised by the British Chambers of Commerce in Germany. The first British female ambassador to Germany considered the twinning movement as now more important than ever without the input of the Brussels EU structures. She said no new support funds were yet available but new candidates were in the pipeline. She felt that personal connections, such as those in the spheres of education and business, were very important, and hoped that a new two-way...

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** BHC member Colin Evans delivered another in his long-running series of talks on German art, taking as his subject City of Women: Female Artists in Vienna 1900-1938. Some 25 members and friends were fascinated this time to hear about and see the work of artists of whom most of us had not heard before. We looked at some outstanding art produced by women in Vienna in the first half of the 20th Century. Although facing the usual obstacles for women at this time, they chose to not to fight but to work their way around them. Denied entry to the Academy, many took private lessons from the teachers...

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** Hannover’s Oberburgermeister Belit Onay sent Marvin Rees a letter of congratulations after his recent re-election for a further three-year term as Bristol Mayor. They agreed to meet online in the near future to discuss a range of possible collaborations on issues such as young people, smart cities, migration, sustainable development and inclusive growth. # # # #  

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