2-692-107 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Large stones and the iron bars and other tools used in the mining operations were thrown among the barrels, as Guy Fawkes afterwards declared, to make the breach the greater, and the whole was then covered with faggots and billets of wood', c1934. Illustration showing the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed assassination attempt against King James I by a group of English Catholics. From The Romance of the Nation, Volume Two, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, c1934]