1/17/2016
My roommate and I went into Central today to tour the
Winston Churchill War Rooms. The first stop on the tour was the Cabinet Room.
It was in this room that Winston met with important cabinet members to talk about
important war time strategy. It was a fairly small room with a bunch of tables
and chairs. The walls were all made of concrete.
We then saw various rooms around the bunker. We saw different rooms including the rooms of
Winston Churchill, his wife’s room and other prominent cabinet members. All of the hallways were very narrow, and most
of the bed rooms were exactly the same. The only exception from this was
Winston Churchill’s bedroom. In the center of the room there was a desk were he
could sit and do work. From this desk he would record his speeches. These
speeches would then be transmitted from a BBC Radio halfway point in the bunker.
Other places in the bunker we saw included the kitchen, the dining
room and the central communications HQ. The best room had to be the Map Room,
there were massive maps laying out all of Europe. It was very impressive to see
and I do not know how one could make sense of such a large map.
What astounded me was that Winston Churchill alongside those
who worked in the war rooms lived there for 6 years. I could not imagine living
there. It was far too cramped and narrow. It also smelt really old and moldy,
but granted that could be expected considering how old it is.
My roommate and I then made our way to Hyde Park to take a
short stroll around. However, by the time we got there it was pitch black so
you couldn’t see anything. We went to go and hop on the tube, but the line we
tried getting on was shut down for some reason. As a result we had to walk a
mile or so to the next closest station.
Tomorrow is the first day of classes. I have Politics first
thing and then Travel Writing later in the day at the Kensington campus. I look
forward to getting started!!
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