A Tunnel under the English Channel

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

The long history of plans for a tunnel under the English Channel, and how they were often stopped by 'the spectre of foreign dragoons galloping out of the grounds in Kent':

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Image: plan for a submarine tunnel between France and England, 1875. Catalogue reference: FO 27/2217.

April Douglas