Our researchers were able to trace them in the 1851 census returns. Interior of a secret chamber concealing a 360-year-old passageway was rediscovered in UK Parliament. But the eye-raising discoveries didn’t end there. A “secret” passageway dating back to the 1600s has been found in the British Parliament. The scrawled pencil marks, left by men who helped block the passageway on both sides in 1851, read: "This room was enclosed by Tom Porter who was very fond of Ould Ale.". “This room was enclosed by Tom Porter who was very fond of Ould Ale” reads one example. "Charles Barry's masons were quite subversive," said Dr Hallam Smith. When Charles II became King in 1660, the tunnel was created in the House of Commons for a procession in 1661. However, as he ran out of money and died before that happened, their purpose will remain a mystery. He and his subjects would have marched through to Westminster Hall – the oldest building in Parliament – from the original Commons chamber for a coronation banquet. It lay behind thick masonry, on the hall side, and wooden panelling, running the full length of a Tudor cloister, on the other side. These scrawls belong to the “Real Democrats”, part of the Chartist movement who were assisting noted architect Sir Charles Barry. Dendrochronology testing revealed that the ceiling timbers above the little room dated from trees felled in 1659 - which tied in with surviving accounts that stated the doorway was made in 1660-61 for the coronation banquet of Charles II. A forgotten passageway in the British parliament constructed for the 1661 coronation of king Charles II has been rediscovered during renovation work, officials said Wednesday. The team are keen to trace the descendants of Tom Porter and his colleagues, and have already discovered that the workers lived in lodgings near Parliament. . . Plans showed that in 1950 another door had been installed in the cloister’s wood paneling. Graffiti left by the 19th century bricklayers remains on the walls, with one section reading: "This room was enclosed by Tom Porter who was very fond of Ould Ale (beer).". They say a lot goes on behind the scenes in politics – this find proves that in more ways than one! VideoRoyal Ballet back on stage with social distancing, The US women leading a 'wine-fuelled rebellion' VideoThe US women leading a 'wine-fuelled rebellion', Striking news pictures from around the world, How history was made in the 2020 science Nobels. "Once a key was made for it, the panelling opened up like a door into this secret entrance. “For centuries, the entrance would have been used by great political luminaries,” writes Parliament’s website, “such as the diarist Samuel Pepys, the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain – Robert Walpole – and arch-rivals Charles James Fox and William Pitt the younger.” From further afield, Benjamin Franklin is believed to have used the tunnel. The door went unnoticed for 70 years until expert Dr Liz Hallam Smith stumbled on the plans at Swindon. The find contradicts what’s inscribed on the brass plaque, which not only mentions the wrong King (Charles I) but claims the passageway was accessed as the monarch “attempted to arrest five MPs”. I also saw an interesting graphic in the Times a couple of years back detailing some of the tunnels below ground. It was created for the coronation banquet of king Charles in 1661, and 17th-century wooden timbers still run across the ceiling. Historians took a closer look when renovation works began across the whole parliamentary estate in 2018, according to Liz Hallam Smith, a historical consultant on the project.
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