Need a help. Historical British buildings

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Links - The Gallery in Wartime:

http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/sho...oductID=300952


http://www.nationalgallery.co.uk/wartime/content.html

http://images.google.se/imgres?imgur...MoXD-Qba0aSGAg





Watch this video:

Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CU9T...ayer_embedded#

"The Blitz. Bombed roof. Gallery at War:
One bomb completely destroyed Room XXVI (now Room 10)On 7 September 1940, the Blitz began in earnest. The City and the East End bore the brunt of the bombing but other parts of London and the south-east were also severely affected.
The National Gallery was hit by bombs nine times between October 1940 and April 1941. The worst occasion was on 12 October 1940 – a high explosive bomb fell on the Gallery totally destroying the room where the Raphaels had hung just before the war.
On another occasion, an unexploded time bomb was discovered in the wreckage from an earlier attack. It later exploded while a lunchtime concert was being held at the other end of the building. Witnesses say that the musicians playing at the time of the explosion didn’t miss a beat."







"Myra Hess and the lunchtime concerts:
Myra Hess had meant to stop playing the piano for the duration of the war. Soon after war was declared, she held a tea party for some friends. That afternoon she intended to play for one last time before locking the lid of her grand piano. The friends, some of whom were refugees recently arrived from mainland Europe, begged her not to give up playing. The idea of the National Gallery concerts was born.
Starved of entertainment, crowds flocked to the Gallery for the lunchtime concerts. These performances were an opportunity to hear the foremost musicians of the day. Many were given by Myra Hess herself. Favourites in her repertoire were Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann. The aim was to make classical music accessible to all. The entrance price was set low at one shilling.
The concerts were a huge success. Even in the darkest days of the Blitz, they were nearly always full".





"On the night of 16 November 1940, incendiary bombs destroyed Hamptons, a department store next door to the National Gallery. The ruins were demolished after the war and the site remained vacant. For several years it served as a car park".

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British Museum:

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National Gallery:

http://images.google.se/imgres?imgur...LZfg-Qa2pYnYBw

Year 1910:



"There was a lot of public criticism of the National Gallery's building and in 1868 the architect E.M. Barry was asked to submit designs for rebuilding the entire Gallery at Trafalgar Square.
After much discussion, it was decided that the existing building should remain, and a new wing should be added. This was completed in 1876, and added seven new exhibition rooms at the east end, including the impressive dome."

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The Sainsbury Wing should NOT be included in the model!! ..and not the Northern Extension either (I'm trying to find out more about this):

"The Gallery today -The new wing opens

A site next to the Gallery had been vacant since the Second World War, when a furniture shop was destroyed by bombing. The new Sainsbury Wing was opened in 1991, to display the entire early Renaissance collection.
This followed on from the Northern Extension, which opened in 1975, providing considerable extra exhibition space: nine large rooms and three smaller 'cabinet' rooms. These new galleries made use of natural lighting as far as possible.
The Gallery today - Following the completion of the Sainsbury Wing, the Gallery has a total floor area of 46,396 metres squared"

This is the Sainsbury Wing, to the left:

http://nationalgallery.org.uk/visiti...plans/level-2/

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Project a few years ago to change the National Gallery. This story is from 2002. I don't know what has been done to the building since this time. The new steps seem to be the most obvious change.:

http://www.hughpearman.com/articles4/natgall.html

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The British Museum. The old roof!!
Bomb damage.








It looks like they kept the old exterior structures. They added a roof over the courtyard, put in stairs to the tower and pulled down some structures:

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British Museum. More pictures of the old roof:

During construction:



Complete:

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British Museum..Windows from inner courtyard 1930's:



Part of the rear of the Museum: