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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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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 …
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 …
