London Day 7 - Monday July 21, 2014

Today we went to Churchill's War Rooms, an incredible museum...

Churchill's underground bedroom, which he apparently detested. The guide told us he frequently told his bodyguard he was going to bed and then would sneak out to a ground-level bedroom he preferred:

Clementine Churchill's bedroom:

The Prime Minister's dining room:

Log book for entering the map room. "PM" is the Prime Minister:

The map room, which was essentially a data collection and display area full of lists and positions of men, ships, aircraft, supplies, etc:

Reverse shot of map room:

Reference documents:

Reference documents:

Reference documents:

Reference documents:

"Flying Bomb" data:

Map of enemy lines:

Convoy map. As noted, every pin point represents the location of a convoy at particular times:

Close-up of pin-holes from all the ships tracked throughout the war:

Tank data:

Chart of British ship tonnage lost by time. The guide told us that originally the chart was in "landscape" format but they had to rotate the paper because the losses were greater than anyone expected. If you zoom in on the picture you can see the previous pin holes up the right side of the sheet:

Got this picture on the way into the war room:

The war room. Churchill's seat was in front of the map and has the rounded back:

War room:

War room:

Churchill's spot:

Churchill's spot:

Note scratched area on the front of Churchill's arm rest. The guide told us he had a habit of scratching the arm rest with his thumbnail:

And he tapped the right side of his arm rest with a ring on one of his fingers:

Used the camera's "panorama" feature to take this picture:

Another panorama shot:

The guide took this picture of us at Churchill's chair (how exciting!):

Another shot: