Main Street, Georgetown


This 1924 picture shows Main Street in Georgetown. The obelisk war memorial instantly binds the architecture to the similar memorial sprining up all over Britain and her Empire in the wake of the Great War. Otherwise, the picture looks very European.


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by Stephen Luscombe