Almost 80 years ago Snowdonia prepared to keep a welcome in the hillside for some of the world's most treasured paintings.As Allied troops fled Dunkirk, bombs fell on London and a German invasion seemed inevitable, attention turned to how to protect the National Gallery's collection.
In 1940, Winston Churchill famously said of the nation's art treasures:"Hide them in caves and cellars, but not one picture shall leave this island."A huge painting of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne is brought out for inspection at Manod Quarry in 1942 Suzanne Bosman, the National Gallery's senior picture researcher and author of The National Gallery in Wartime, explains that moving almost 2,000 works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Turner and Constable proved to be quite an undertaking.
The collection was initially held in Bangor University until someone decided to place an anti aircraft gun their. This attracted unwanted attention from the Luftwaffe so it was moved to the mountains.
Old news there have been TV documentaries on this subject before and many articles in the press ....
miners to the rescue again
Winston Churchill famously said,but not one picture shall leave this island.
Exactly it’s all over the USA
Are the BBC ever going to report how much Nazi loot turned up in USA? No?
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