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Friday Quiz: London At War

It’s the 70th anniversary of Churchill’s famous ‘Few’ speech, marking victory in the Battle of Britain. The great oration will be recreated outside the Churchill War Rooms at 3.52pm today, followed by a fly-past of period aircraft. For today’s quiz, we’re taking the wider theme …

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Prince Charles is to host a Clarence House Festival in September in aid of his Start initiative. Scotland Yard are talking tough when it comes to World Cup football thuggery. The body of a man has been pulled from a suspicious car fire in Peckham. …

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Bureaucracy, Bombs And Bunkers: Churchill’s Wartime HQ

By tezzer57 via the Londonist Flickrpool As any visitor to the Cabinet War Rooms, Winston Churchill’s wartime HQ, will be aware, the one flaw in the brilliant scheme to move Government beneath Whitehall was that the bunker wasn’t actually bomb proof. Not that it would …

The BBC built a small studio within the bunker, allowing Churchill to address the nation from within. It was never used for such a purpose. Sound padding remains on the walls.

Inside Churchill’s Emergency War Bunker

Naval helicopters flew over Dollis Hill on their way to the Greenwich celebrations yesterday. Had their pilots looked down, they might have seen a queue of civilians awaiting a rather special tour of military heritage. The Paddock bunker sits high up on Brook Road, Dollis …