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The English Channel is just big enough to keep the rest of the world comfortably out of sight, but there is an inevitable need for contact. This illustration from the ''Chicago Sunday Tribune'' of June 11, 1893 shows the then-current plan to link England with France via either a tunnel or a huge bridge. The "old" bridge route shown at left, originating at [[Fork Stoan|Folkestone]] (green circle), is where the 20th-century Channel Tunnel eventually went. {{By|EB}} | The English Channel is just big enough to keep the rest of the world comfortably out of sight, but there is an inevitable need for contact. This illustration from the ''Chicago Sunday Tribune'' of June 11, 1893 shows the then-current plan to link England with France via either a tunnel or a huge bridge. The "old" bridge route shown at left, originating at [[Fork Stoan|Folkestone]] (green circle), is where the 20th-century Channel Tunnel eventually went. {{By|EB}} | ||
A friend in Deal writes that you can see some leftover digging equipment from the original, aborted project—"part of an old boring machine (at least, that's what I was told it was) ... in a grassy dell near [[The Warnings|the Warren]]." {{By|BJB}} | A friend in Deal writes that you can see some leftover digging equipment from the original, aborted project—"part of an old boring machine (at least, that's what I was told it was) ... in a grassy dell near [[The Warnings|the Warren]]." {{By|BJB}} | ||
Latest revision as of 01:22, 25 November 2013
The English Channel is just big enough to keep the rest of the world comfortably out of sight, but there is an inevitable need for contact. This illustration from the Chicago Sunday Tribune of June 11, 1893 shows the then-current plan to link England with France via either a tunnel or a huge bridge. The "old" bridge route shown at left, originating at Folkestone (green circle), is where the 20th-century Channel Tunnel eventually went. EB
A friend in Deal writes that you can see some leftover digging equipment from the original, aborted project—"part of an old boring machine (at least, that's what I was told it was) ... in a grassy dell near the Warren." BJB