"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life!" - Winston Churchill

Following WWII, the basement under the New Public Offices which housed the Cabinet War Rooms was closed. George Rance, who had been retired but became the liaison for the Rooms despite it, continued to maintain the Rooms. In 1948 the Cabinet War Rooms were made public knowledge and tours were given by appointment. After they were taken over by the Department for the Environment in the 1970s, they were still receiving requests for tours. In 1984 the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum opened to the public, eventually being taken into care by the Imperial War Museum.

I found myself there the other day quite by serendipity. It was amazing. 

£17,50 for adults or £14 for students/seniors gets a ticket and an audio tour device. The device allows people to move at their own pace through the museum, telling the story at each room. Almost nothing has been changed inside the place (there's updated lighting, and some of the rooms had been turned to storage, but they have been restored based on photos and personal witness statements). I walked into the hallway leading to the main cabinet room, and since no one was immediately near me, I got a weird feeling of having been actually transported to 1945. Later on in the museum, there's an annex where they play air raid sirens, and I got shivers. 

The Cabinet War Rooms were an amazing experience, and I wish I knew the words to express how amazing it was.

The Imperial War Museum made a video in 2010 that shows some key sights within the War Rooms:

Joke of the day:

There was a time when I really wanted to be a banker, but I lost interest.