Description
Wren Cadets from the Women’s Royal Naval Service enjoy a meal in the famous Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, in 1943.Wren Cadets from the Women’s Royal Naval Service enjoy a meal in the famous Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, in 1943.
Dimensions: 15 x 20.7 cm
IMS SKU: SCAN-IMS-04934342
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OCR computer generated text:
CLARENK PAULSE POKEN LABALA AWAD Winde RO WAN
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9713 oftan Admiralty Photograph No.A. Issued by M. O. I. WOMEN’S ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE. Naval Officers and Cadet Officers who are in residence at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, use the famous Painted Hall for their Mess. 9 The Kitchens which are situated directly below the Painted Hall, have the most up-to-date cooking appliances, and cater for the service of all meals which are taken in the Hall. They are manned by Wren Cooks who work under a male Chef and male Cooks. These Wrens have the opportunity of first hand instruction on quantity catering and quantity feeding, which will be useful for a post-war world. The Painted Hall, Royal Naval College. Wren Cadets are lunching at the table in the background. The painting of this famous Hall by Sir James Thornhill the best known mural painter of his day took 19 years to complete, from 1708-27. Sir James Thornhill con- tracted with the Commissioners of the Hospital to paint the Hall at the rate of 3.0.0d per square yard for the ceiling and 1.0.Od per square yard for the wall, and his contract price was 6,685.0.0d for 19 years’ work. A.7476 England matsalen p Greenwich – mssen 1943.
