Obelisk, Heliopolis, Egypt Size:M: 60 x 60cm view of the Albert Memorial

view of the Albert Memorial

Prime Minister Winston Churchill pictured at Heald Green Station on his surprise visit to Manchester during the Second World War

caught by a third child fishing in a stream

grapes and a chestnut

Henry VII founded a hospital for the poor on the site

Obelisk, Heliopolis, Egypt Size:M: 60 x 60cm view of the Albert MemorialObelisk, Heliopolis, Egypt, c1890. The oldest standing Ancient Egyptian obelisk in existence, the example at Heliopolis was erected by the 12th Dynasty Pharaoh Senusret I, who ruled from 1971 to 1926 BC. It was one of a pair erected to commemorate the Heb Sed (30th Jubilee) of Senusret. Lantern slide.