Just walked past marble arch in London and it got me thinking how exactly did they move it from Buckingham Palace to marble arch

2 very strong men.

They got the Bishop of Canterbury to do it.

He got a new title afterwards.

Carefully? But much the same way things like London Bridge got moved to the US. Take it apart marking the blocks, shift the bits, put it back together again.

But it's one of those land marks that should probably get moved so it's back as an entrance to the park.. But moving it again would no doubt cost a whole lot more than it did the first time around.

MyHermes !

That's telekinesis, Kyle.

What I didn't know until today is that Marble Arch actually has rooms inside it. It used to be a police station; http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00t698s/p00t69kt

How do you think it was moved?

If you look carefully you will see the skirting boards can be unclipped, and after that just take the brakes off the castors, though I'd recommend a spot of three-in-one* to get it moving as it's been sat in the same place for a while. Check for biros *before* moving it because the ink from those is nasty to try and clean up.




* both religious and canned may be needed

It was supposed to go in the middle of Hyde Park just by the Serpentine. But the driver couldn't be bothered to go up the drive and just dumped it at the side of the road.

1 piece at a time.....?

Or a police phone box.

Which would explain how it moved.

please don't give them ideas, TFL would shut Park Lane for three months, probably puting in a diversion that would mean to access Edgware Road or Bayswater you'd have to go via Kensington

Ask Pickfords for a quote.

It's reasonably common these days to move large things around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_relocation

Many ancient monuments have been relocated over the years. One of the most impressive projects was the Unesco project to relocate the Nubian monuments in Eygpt to make way for the Aswan Dam. Many countries were involved in the excavation and relocation of the monuments. Philae Temple and Abu Simbel are the most well known,but many others were also dismantled and relocated.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/173

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/000...7/074755eo.pdf

Fair point, but then London is one of those places I don't drive unless there's absolutely no alternative. On which note, a lowball quote from Anarchical Architecture could.. expedite the relocation. Wrap the Arch in a suitable quantity of duct tape, set charges and Bob's your uncle*. Unless he was in the 'pedestrian' tunnels underneath it, in which case he'd probably be dead anyway. Not sure if that's still a no-go zone or the inhabitants of those have been moved on.

*The French may even be persuaded to pay for that.. The arch being a monument to their failures..

Same aliens wot dun the pyramids

The real trick is how anyone made an arch out of marbles in the first place. If they knew that, they could just move it in buckets.

It's a giant floating building, as in the film Zardoz. But moving it around requires an HGV driving licence.

Regarding relocating large buildings from one place to another - Did I dream this or did I actually see a large old Elizabethan style house being transported very slowly over open countryside somewhere in the Essex area c 1970's. The entire house appeared to be resting on rollers and being , hauled by one or more tractors.

In a very big van or toed behind ?

Erm, I don't know about 'dream', but I think given it was the 70s, and you saw something really weird, and were not sure it it was a dream, then perhaps there is an alternative theory relating to this vision...?


That said, it's certainly not impossible - even mobile homes can be moved and I'm sure what you saw wouldn't have been unique.
e2a: just looking at the earlier wiki link, I remember seeing an extended report about the Belle Tout lighthouse being moved. On rails...