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Empire Builder's Memorial -- The room RHodes used as a youth showing the desk at which he studied.
Cecil Rhodes birthplace in South Street. Bishop' stortford, Herts, will shortly be opened as a permanent memorial to the man who was one of our greatest Empire builders.
With the aid of a former servant the house has been refurnished in the way it was when occupied by the Rhodes Family.
An adjoining cottage will be used as a Rhodes Museum and the grounds are being laid cut as public gardens. June 27, 1938. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).