This initiated the first formal moves to establish a Victorian chamber of commerce in Melbourne.
Then they reached the Victorian chambers of the Baltimore Gun Club (the Club which built the Cannon), and discovered the plans and drawings of the Columbiad and the journey to the Moon.
As a result of her research, the drawing room was turned into an authentic Victorian Gothic chamber with mustard and red wallpaper copied from a Harewood House original in Leeds City Art Gallery collection.
Working with the architect Terry Farrell, we set out to show how the delightful triangular blocks of Victorian chambers along Queen Victoria Street in the City - Mappin and Webb is the best known - could be refurbished and brought back to life.
Lisa Partridge, the Tussaud artist who creates acrylic eyes, has learned that Film Forum in Manhattan will soon be screening a new 3-D print of "House of Wax," the 1953 horror film starring Vincent Price as the mad sculptor who repopulates his Victorian chamber of horrors by coating victims with wax.
In 2012 he was also Chairman/ CEO of an Australian company working with the Victorian University System/ VCAMM (Victorian chamber of advanced manufacturing materials).
This still contains the Victorian debating chamber of 1864, unchanged since that date.
The Chamber of the House of Commons is at the northern end of the Palace of Westminster; it was opened in 1950 after the Victorian chamber had been destroyed in 1941 and re-built under the architect Giles Gilbert Scott.