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We knew that the obelisk now at St George's Circus spent much of its life at the northern apex of Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, from about 1897 (or 1905, accounts differ) - 1998, and now we have a photo of it there. This shows it marked "Obelisk".

The photo shows the obelisk at a corner with traffic lights, and the street sign reads "St George's Road". The buildings in the background are/were in Barkham Terrace. This was a Georgian terrace with a chapel in the middle. Upton Chapel is the pedimented building shown in the photo and the modern building with the distinctive banding near the top can be clearly seen in Streetview today. The chapel was damaged in WW2, demolished in 1952 and replaced with an extension to the modern building in exactly the same style. And the white, classical building at the left? This can only be the gatehouse at the entrance to the grounds of the Hospital. We were confused at first since all these buildings seem too close but we assume that's an effect of the lens used in the camera.

We thank Mark Brady for sharing this photo. We'd like to thank the source but Mark found it on the internet a long time ago and can't remember the website (we've all been there). And after we'd done all this photo-examination he sent us a map showing the location of the obelisk - exactly where we'd laboriously deduced it was.

See the obelisk at its current location for information about the inscriptions, etc.

2026: We took this foliage-free current day photo to compare with Mark's photo. You can see that the modern building has been extended towards the right, replacing the pedimented building, and that its mansard section has had some changes.

Source: Wikipedia.