A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm View of Bunhill Row

View of Bunhill Row

showing the Old Jewellery Mart public house with figures

a Catholic priest tells Beadle John Bull that the Fenians should have listened to him

Lord Lovat

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm View of Bunhill RowA lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80