The Historic Room

Added 1542122655 by Photographer Gino Cinganelli.

Today for me is really exciting as I will get to photograph something that only two people have photographed before. but let me start with the history. around 1901 a business man was sitting in his office, the room was heated by a burning open fire and the walls wood panelled, it was a dark room with little light coming in. apparently this was his mothers home before converting to industrial space with offices after her death. Most days he would work in this office and in the hustle of daily life never took notice of something magical in the room. His grandson explained " one day something caught his eye, in the corner of one of the wood panels as the vanish was fading or had chipped off he could see colour, on a closer look hidden under the vanish was some kind of painting. A few months passed and he employed someone to remove the vanish on that panel so he could take look. Under the panel now fully exposed was a painting, a painting of a stunning manor house with lavish fields and woodland all around, in the distance on a hill stood Rochester Castle. Without hesitation the next panel was worked on, then the next and then the next until the wood panels all the way round the room were exposed. every panel on the upper part of the walls was a painting of different views and scenes of Rochester. Many years later the grandson contacted English heritage who sent a team of historians and experts to the room and document and record this outstanding find. I have been told that it was photographed but in black and white. This room sits empty now but today I have been invited to see it and photograph it for me. I have searched the internet and can see no mention of it. It is believed but not based on any factual evidence that the panels were actual historical scenes dating around the early 1700 hundreds the painter remains unknown TODAY I WILL UPLOAD A COUPLE OF THESE PAINTINGS ON MY PORT and any more information I can find out. Thank you for reading I love a bit of history