The secret WW2 mission to save Britain’s art collections
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The Banqueting House Ceiling in Whitehall
Once the blitz hip london in the autumn of 19 forty a number of collections, which it had been thought should stay on sight in central london had to be moved. They were simply packed into the backs either lorries, or they wer put on to railway containers, driven to the nearest station and headed off to their destinations. And an example of that is the banqueting house ceiling in whitehall, the great reuben's masterpiece, his painting of the apotheos of james the first. The office of works had decided that they weren't going to move it. But you know, the there were some improvisations that had to be made.
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