Churchill's Bunker

Another fine place to visit while in London are the bunker offices of Winston Churchill. Locating the entrance to this is similar to locating the entrance to a non-commercial cave (you have to use a map and you have to think logically where the entrance could be, based on the general description of the place--at least, I had to.....and eventually found the entrance to this underground place a bit by accident.).

The museum contains background material displays, a conference room where Churchill and others met, situation rooms, a phone room where Churchill made secret transatlantic phone calls to President Roosevelt (transmissions were routed through a center in the basement of a department store on Oxford Street--store is still there today, I forget the name).

Most remarkable about the situation room is that the objects seen in the room are as they were when the doors were closed on X date. Maps strewn on the table. There's a map of the Atlantic that has hundreds of holes punched in it from where shipping was tracked.