Amazing Painted Hall - updated

Went to a very fancy dinner last Thursday night at the Painted Hall at the Naval College in Greenwich. It was an amazing room, luckily my camera is still acting up so I didn't even try and take a picture of its loveliness, so click on the above link to a 360 degree view of the room from BBC.

From a guide book here's a little background - Situated within the Old Royal Naval College, the Painted Hall was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1694 and was originally built to serve as the dining hall of Greenwich Hospital. The hospital was established for the relief and support of seamen and their dependants and for the improvement of navigation. It became the Royal Naval College in 1869, and recently the University of Greenwich has moved in.

It was here in January 1806 that the body of Lord Nelson lay in state after the Battle of Trafalgar as thousands came to pay their last respects to one of England’s finest Seamen. The paintings on the wall all represent a story or an event that happened, and took Sir James Thornhill 19 years to complete.

Dinner was to hear speakers from the British Antarctic Society, they have just design and will soon start building the next version of their research station called Halley VI. Full disclosure, a sister company of my employer did th engineering, which is why I was invited. The speakers were excellent and th eroom really was lovely.