Churchill Museum! -- July 20, 2011

Wednesday, Maegan and I went to the Winston Churchill War Rooms.  It was so amazing. It was an extremely interactive museum. It was very difficult to find the entrance because it is this huge building with a single door in the corner that is the front entrance. It sort of looks like a hole in the wall. This is definitely my favorite museum. 

The Churchill War Rooms, also called the Cabinet War Rooms were used by Winston Churchill and his staff during World War II.  This is where the Prime Minister and his staff met when London was being bombed.  It was considered very safe because it was reinforced by steel and concrete.  In the Cabinet War Rooms, there are bedrooms for Winston Churchill, his detectives, his Minister of Information, Brendan Bracken, and his wife, Clementine Churchill.  Connected to the Cabinet War Rooms, the Winston Churchill Museum tells about his life.  

This is the bedroom of Churchill's detectives. 

This is the Prime Minister's Dining Room. 

Here is a picture of the reinforcement above the Cabinet War Rooms. They did this to ensure that if a bomb were dropped on the building, no one would be hurt. The concrete here, is called "The Slab" and is five feet thick! 

This is a room where many BBC broadcasts were done. Churchill's office and bedroom were also fully equipped with BBC equipment so that he could make broadcasts at any time. 

Here is a secretary's office and bedroom. 

This is called the Typist's rooms. Up to 11 women worked in this room at any given moment. 

You can barely see it, but the white phone at the end of this bank on the right is the secure line that Winston Churchill used to phone President Roosevelt.  

This is Churchill's office and bedroom. 

This bedroom belongs to Churchill's wife, Clementine.

Sooo....Churchill invented the Romper? Hmm...

The military dress worn by Winston Churchill.  

A picture of 80 year old Winston Churchill surrounded by younger versions of himself.  They are toasting to his birthday. 

This is a painting done by Winston Churchill.  Apparently he was quite the artist. He really enjoyed painting with oils. 

The door of No. 10 Downing Street while Winston Churchill lived there. 

After Maegan and I left the Cabinet War Rooms, we went to Covent Garden to look around and get ice cream. We went to the Ice Creamist's.  It is a very dark kind of ice cream boutique.  The cone's are jet black.