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Sarah Churchill, the first Duchess of Marlborough was not impressed by the plan of Vanbrugh. She thought the plan and architecture were unnecessarily expensive and cost a lot of money.

The result?

Vanbrugh was banished from Blenheim by the duchess. He had planned and designed the bridge for nothing. And after being forbidden, his secret of what was under the bridge went with him.

Hidden

In 1768, the gardener and the architect of the Palace, the "Capacity of Lancelot" Brown has planned a project in which he had workers to bring sets of 160 acres of lakes at the Palace Park, who hides with the Inner something vast and huge that has never been exposed..until recently.

In danger

The large bridge covers two lakes of Blenheim Palace, which may be dried for the first time and could even make the bridge unstable because of the drought of the lakes. To save it, the lakes will be drained for the first time in 250 years.

repair

To save the bridge, the workers decided to drag 400,000 tonnes of sediment in the hope of returning the river water to its original height. But before that could happen, there would be a revelation too big.

Intervention

The involvement of succession to plan the renovation of the river was essential because otherwise the river would have disappeared in the next ten years and England would lose its best view. But everything was going to change very soon.

The plan

To see what the bridge would be as if there was no water at all in the lakes, experts planned to reduce the water level of six and a half feet and underground water wells and siphons have been installed to work. But this operation would also reveal the hidden secret.

First World War

The palace was much more than a place to live Churchill and family and more than a tourist attraction. During the First World War, Blenheim Palace was used as a convalescence hospital for all brave soldiers wounded in the war.

World War II

During the Second World War, between 1939 and 1940, Malvern College had to be evacuated due to the safety of student safety and more than 400 boys were evacuated to the palace where their classes were even taking place for one year.

Tourist attraction

The magnificent and eye-catching palace was not open at the public entrance in the premises until 1950. But no one had ever able to be hidden under the bridge over which thousands and millions of tourists were.

'Brown capacity'

Lancelot 'Capacity' Brown was so named because of its customers. He convinced customers of the great "ability" that their areas had improvements in their landscapes. It is considered one of the largest gardeners in England.

Speciality

Brown would completely change the XVIIth century look of the gardens of the house and converts them to something else. That's what he did to Blenheim Palace too. It would eliminate any "formal planting" and replace it with a "natural landscape" so-called ".

Best work

The Garden of Blenheim is the most important landscape among the works of the career of the capacity, which is also considered the summum of its career history. And since then, there has been a secret hiding place under the deep water of the lakes.

Start

The palace is the house of the 11th duke and Duchess de Marlborough in the present. When the work happened in progress to save the bridge, he revealed something so huge that every archaeologist was stunned.

treasure

When archaeologists have lowered the water level to examine the rigidity of the bridge, they have discovered a life, that everyone was not aware. Under the bridge, hidden inside the water of the lakes were thirty secret rooms!

Interior

Brown had flooded these thirty rooms and no one ever knew them. The walls of all rooms were plastered that meant that humans lived in them. A lot of things owned has also been found in the rooms, which was years old.

Vanbrugh's intelligence

When Vanbrugh said he wanted to make the "habitable viaduct", he wanted to do it with the thirty rooms he built under the bridge, who still have strange remains that belonged to the people who had their homes in those rooms.

Remains

It was incredible to see business like fireplaces, fireplaces and cooking assortments under water for more than a quarter of millennium. The team also found secret tunnels in the rooms.

Graffiti

Archaeologists also found bunning boats under water and the walls had graffiti on them, probably dated 1756, where on one of the wells is the name W Baker soaked, who must have been worker.

Punt

A very distinct thing found by the experts was the remains of a motorized pit that came from the 1930s. The experts say it should be accessible to boats at the beginning of the 20th century.

To make a break

A spokesman for Blenheim Palace commented on: "Many rooms, especially lower rooms, have not been consulted from their floods. It's so far. He is cavernous inside. When you see things like Sunken boats inside, it's as if the weather remained motionless. "

Goal

The spokesman also said, "We do not know what the two tunnels we found were built and where they lead as they are blocked after about 30 meters. They have a 1.5 meter height that would suggest that they were not designed for people. We have not yet been able to identify the names graffitiated on the walls, but the hypothesis is that they were work workers here. "

Costs

The work of the bridge cost a huge sum of money since it was planned and implemented. Lake dredging alone cost 6 million £. The repair work of the bridge would cost 3.5 million £.

2007

The slots in the artificial lakes used to build only 1 cm or 2cm each year, which was never a matter of concern. But in 2007, due to extreme weather conditions, the slots increased by 20 cm in one year and had since increased, causing all the problems.

Open

The flooded rooms are now open and accessible to all tourists to have a view. The archaeological characteristics and the whole sandstone structure would now be visible for everyone because the capacity of Lancelot Brown would have originally thought.

Major work

Roy Cox, the head of the successions of Blenheim commented: "Queen's pool dredging and repairs to the Grand Bridge are not just our biggest challenge to date, but also marks some of the projects of stone and dredging More ambitious never tried in the UK. "

Plan for future

The COX added: "After four years of planning, it is great to see the first phase of the project begin. If everything goes according to planning, this initial survey will allow us to develop detailed plans for the main work likely to start towards the end of next year. "

Need

The work could not have been ignored or delayed. Roy says: "There is an absolute certainty that if this work was not done, the view will be lost forever. We must act to protect this emblematic landscape for future generations to discover and enjoy."

2017

Nick Baimbridge, the head has a sylviculturist image in the Queen's pool, click on it in 2017 when the lakes were seen the last time covered with water before the water levels dropped even further and the lakes were emptied for the project.

Churchill

The palace was the important capital place for Churchill who even made this statement during a public speech once, "In Blenheim, I took two very important decisions; to be born and get married. I am happy with the decision I made in both cases ".

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The spokesman for the palace also said, "The landscape master visionary builds the Great Lake and planted thousands of trees in his ten-year term here, the engineering of a landscape that seems natural, but is actually "Failure to please effect. »

Heritage of the world

The palace of Blenheim has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 1987. Therefore, it becomes even more mandatory to preserve the beauty of the palace and to hold it in the best conditions at any time.

Connected

Secret rooms have really connected to history. It shows that humans really change ever, for example, graffiti was there even so many years, and it still prevails. The habits have hardly changed since.

Big task

The task of recovering the bridge and the lakes is not a slight task. It will be long before the work reaches its final phase. The dredging itself will take at least two years, and the Global Palace Management Plan is thought to continue for nearly a decade to come.