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moved its main base in early 1940 from London to the hotel and requisitioned the hotel until 1947. The
Directorate brought 250 artists, designers and technicians to the town who worked in secret on aspects of military and civilian camouflage. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, according to
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