As the Berlin Wall began to crumble in late 1989 my sister Julia predicted that New Years Eve in Berlin would be 'the party of the century' and urged me to join her there where she was staying with her then boyfriend, Ruprecht. With a Pentax K1000 35mm camera borrowed from the Exeter College of Art & Design's photographic equipment store and a few rolls of film, I hitch hiked my way across Germany and took the images below. They may be grainy and poor quality but they remind me of an incredible evening which culminated in dodging guards and climbing to the top of the Brandenburg Gate where I looked down on hundreds of thousands of people as they celebrated and ducked as fireworks screamed by. It was one of those rare occasions in life when you are conscious of seeing history in the making.