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Monday, 8 February 2016

Kisumu centre, 1970

I've been looking through old pictures I took 45 years ago and found this one of the Kisumu clock tower ....

 
 

... and this one taken in 2012
 
 
 
I wonder what the square thing is on top of the clock tower ?    Obviously I must go and look !   One change in the town is the coming of massive advertising hoardings everywhere, in gaudy colours, advertising banks, deodorants and breast feeding ! 
 
In the top picture, behind the clock tower, was Kisumu Grocers, where we shopped about once every three weeks.   When I was in Canada about 15 years ago, I travelled across the central part by train, and got talking to a young Indian lady visiting family in Vancouver; it turned out she had been brought up in Kisumu Grocers which her family owned !   She must have been one of the little Indian girls playing around in the shop in the 70's !!     Small world ......
 


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