A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm St Catherine

St Catherine

Shelagh McGrath

View of Bunhill Row

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

wishing he had performed the same trick

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:S: 60 x 45cm St CatherineA 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