Top secret operation that returned Bayeux Tapestry to UK for first time in 1,000 years in the middle of the nightThe 960-year-old tapestry was secretly loaded onto a lorry and transported for 11 hours from France to London with police and special technology to protect the priceless piece of historyWorkers unloading the crate holding the Bayeux Tapestry outside the British Museum (Image: AFP via Getty Images)Nearly 1,000 years of history delicately arrived in the UK in the dead of night, in a massive operation involving British and French police. The Bayeux Tapestry set off on an 11-hour journey after leaving northern France at 6:15pm, on Thursday, and onto a shuttle train through the Channel tunnel. The priceless work was met by the Metropolitan Police Service and Kent Police before it arrived in London at around 3am, on Friday, to bring the carefully planned and secret operation to a successful end. The priceless artefact had been folded like an accordion and placed into a climate controlled case within a shock-absorbing cradle - providing the 70-metre-long tapestry will all the added protection for the road.
Worker pushes specially designed crate carrying the Bayeux Tapestry into the British Museum
