The Man in Possession Parliament building Church of St Olave Jewry

Church of St Olave Jewry

it is the only remaining part of the old Whitehall Palace above ground

View of John Humphrey's Dock and Hay's Wharf

25th August 1990

The Man in Possession Parliament building Church of St Olave Jewry'The Man in Possession', 1877. Russia is depicted as rowing her boat, loaded with gunpowder, at the lock gates of the Suez Canal. The lock is being guarded by a good, solid, British lockkeeper. This relates to the war recently declared on Turkey by Russia. Lord Derby, the former Conservative Prime Minister, had been in contact with Russia to express the Government's concern that the Suez Canal should not be targeted. Russia replied that, provided