Wormster
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9 years ago
Interesting synopsis of the movement of the National gallery:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgdsbk7#z89hycw 

(its obvs dummbed down for the punters!)
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royfellows
9 years ago
I like the struggle getting the lorry under the bridge, I remember trying to get an XR3i through there on sheet ice in the late 1980s
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Its nice archive footage.
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Wormster
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9 years ago
Haha Roy, sounds like fun.

To get the King Charles on his cavalier horse under the bridge the roadway had to be lowered by about a foot or so (if you look carefully at the bridge buttresses you can see the undercut and re-enforcement) there wasn't enough clearance so the tires of the trailer had to be deflated, the picture went through with about a 1/4" clearance!

I did manage to get an unofficial tour of the quarry some years ago, before all the untopping work commenced, we got to see everything bar the Cabans, which the quarry supervisor wasn't prepared to show us only letting us glimpse them from the gates!
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royfellows
9 years ago
Thanks for that info, it explains a lot!
I had noticed and wondered about it, drawing the obvious conclusion, but for some reason never connected it with the movement of artwork during the war.

A dumb moment.
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