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English: Henry VIII's Wine Cellar in the basement of the Minisrty of Defence Main Building.
The Wine Cellar is one of the few remaining parts of Whitehall Palace – the main London residence of Kings and Queens (and Lord Protectors – because Oliver Cromwell also lived there) for over 150 years. Today Whitehall is the name of the broad road linking Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square, or it’s used as a synonym for ‘government’, but Whitehall was once the biggest palace in Europe – bigger than the Vatican, bigger even than Versailles – covering over 93,000 square metres between the river and Green Park. It is amazing that the Cellar survived. Not only were the buildings above it razed several times by fire in the 16th and 17th century, and by 18th and 19th Century development, but the original plans for the new MoD buildings and the surrounding roads would have meant the destruction of the Cellar. It was another Queen Mary – this time the widow of George V – who requested that they be saved. So in 1949 they moved the whole cellar. They couldn’t dismantle it (Tudor brick is too soft) they dug around and underneath it and encased the whole space in steel and concrete and shifted the thing 9 feet (about 3 metres) to the West and 19 feet (6 metres) lower.
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Author | Harland Quarrington |
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Camera manufacturer | Canon |
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Camera model | Canon EOS 5D Mark III |
Author | Harland Quarrington |
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F-number | f/8 |
ISO speed rating | 160 |
Date and time of data generation | 12:52, 26 February 2016 |
Lens focal length | 17 mm |
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Headline | Henry VIII's Wine Cellar |
Credit/Provider | MoD/Crown copyright 2016 |
Source | MOD |
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City shown | London |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 14:30, 2 March 2016 |
Exposure Program | Manual |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 2016:02:26 : : |
APEX shutter speed | 0.736966 |
APEX aperture | 6 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Maximum land aperture | 4 APEX (f/4) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
DateTimeOriginal subseconds | 71 |
Color space | sRGB |
Focal plane X resolution | 1,600 |
Focal plane Y resolution | 1,600 |
Focal plane resolution unit | 3 |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Manual exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Scene capture type | Standard |
Serial number of camera | 043023001985 |
Lens used | TS-E17mm f/4L |
Image width | 2,594 px |
Image height | 4,200 px |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:30, 2 March 2016 |
Rating (out of 5) | 0 |
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Category | MOD |
Original transmission location code | UNCLASSIFIED |
Writer | Harland Quarrington |
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Unique ID of original document | 9E180D5AF3A9248C58835B1B252CFE50 |
Contact information | phots@ddc-mod.org
www.defenceimagery.mod.uk Directorate of Defence Communications,1-D-15 Ministry of Defence,Main Building,Whitehall London, Greater London, SW1A 2AX United Kingdom |
Copyright status | Copyrighted |
Province or state shown | London |
Country shown | United Kingdom |
Sublocation of city shown | London |
IIM version | 2 |
Type of item | Event |
Editorial status of image | Pending |
Fixture name | Free |