The Delta Barrage, Cairo, Egypt J.G. Parry-Thomas an outdoor coffee bar in

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The Delta Barrage, Cairo, Egypt J.G. Parry-Thomas an outdoor coffee bar inThe Delta Barrage, Cairo, Egypt, c1920s. Completed in 1862, the Delta Barrage was a dam which was intended to improve irrigation in the Nile Delta area of Egypt. However, its foundations had been so poorly laid that it could not be used as a dam was subsequently marked as a romantic river crossing instead. Plate taken From In the Land of the Pharaohs, published by Lehnert & Landrock (Cairo).