We are fortunate to have an official guide to the Palace of Westminster on our Executive Council in Paul Pickering. Many of us have enjoyed past visits and hopefully we may be able to arrange another visit sometime in the New Year that will also include a chance to see Anthony Oakshett’s 15Ft. x 12Ft. paintings inspired by the engraver John Pine’s 1739 published copies of the famous 10 Armada Tapestries that hung in the House of Lords from 1616 until 1834, when a wrongly stoked furnace caused the fire that destroyed the old Palace of Westminster.
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