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	Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The War Rooms were constructed in 1938 and were heavily used by Winston Churchill during World War II.
		However, the Cabinet War Rooms were vulnerable to a direct hit and were abandoned not long after the war.
		In 2003, nine rooms used by Churchill and his closest associates, including his wife, which had been stripped out after the war and used for storage, were added to the museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cabinet_War_Rooms (474 words)

	Military citadels under London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This came in the 2003 BBC documentary on the Iraq conflict, Fighting the War, in which BBC cameras were allowed into the facility to film a small part of a teleconference between ministers and military commanders.
		The only central London citadel currently open to the public is the Cabinet War Rooms, located in Horse Guards Road in the basement of what is now HM Treasury.
		The Cabinet War Rooms were a secret to all civilians until their opening to the public in 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_citadels_under_London (1105 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms - LondonHotels.in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This underground room was the ideal to place to direct his War Cabinet, throughout the air raids that were, anticipated at the time.
		This room was for Churchill’s meetings, with an elite, few, ministers and advisors from the War Cabinet and the Defence Committee.
		This room depicts a day in the life of Winston Churchill and features such props as cigars, Champagne and newspapers, which help you to understand the mind of the man who directed the war efforts from Britain.
	www.londonhotels.in /wiki/index.php/Cabinet_War_Rooms (316 words)

	The Cabinet War Rooms
		The Cabinet War Rooms are located in the basement of a government building, and were hurriedly converted in 1939, on the eve of the Second World War.
		The underground complex of twenty-one war rooms has remained relatively untouched since they were abandoned at the end of the war in 1945.
		Churchill's subterranean wartime headquarters include the very war room where the Prime Minister, his Cabinet and his Chiefs of Staff took momentous decisions at the height of the enemy bombing on London, and the top secret Map Room where military planners plotted the course of the war around the clock.
	www.georgianhousehotel.co.uk /cabinet_war_rooms.htm (476 words)

	Churchill aura imbues Cabinet War Rooms \| Arizona Daily Star ®
		The Cabinet War Rooms - a unit of the Imperial War Museum - are at Clive Steps, King Charles Street, near Westminster Underground station.
		When the war ended, the last light was turned off, the doors locked, and the major rooms left as they were on Aug. 16, 1945.
		The many-layered display, now in prototype form at the war rooms, will hold surprises: Point to 1915, slide the electronic paper clip to May 7, and the sinking of the Lusitania plunges the entire lifeline into watery chaos - as the actual event did.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/26829 (1450 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel Outdoors: Clouds of war renew tourist interest in Churchill's underground hide-out
		The Cabinet War Rooms, the underground sanctuary where Winston Churchill and his lieutenants worked as the Germans bombed London during World War II, have taken on new significance in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and the pending war with Iraq.
		The War Cabinet Room, where Churchill and his staff met during bombing raids, has been left as it was when the room was closed in 1945.
		A sand-bagged entrance to the Cabinet War Rooms in London is modeled on the entrances to government installations in the area in 1939 and 1940.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/traveloutdoors/134647224_warrooms09.html (1552 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms- Venues.org.uk
		On becoming Prime Minister in May 1940 Winston Churchill visited the underground War Cabinet Room and said "this is a room from which I will direct the war".
		In 2002 the Cabinet War Rooms took over and restored large areas of the Whitehall site which had been hidden for years.
		Rooms are available for corporate or private hire, both daytime and evening.
	www.venues.org.uk /profile_page.asp?VenueID=3790 (191 words)

	washingtonpost.com: London War Rooms Add Churchill Museum
		The War Rooms were Winston Churchill's underground headquarters -- the place "from which I'll direct the war," Churchill decreed in 1940, ".
		The Cabinet War Rooms are a remarkable underground warren of meeting rooms, claustrophobic sleeping quarters and bulky communications equipment buried beneath the Treasury building near No. 10 Downing St. and Parliament.
		At war's end, the doors were locked and much of the complex became a 1945 time capsule.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A63778-2005Feb4?language=printer (599 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms, London SW1 : tourist information from TourUK
		The Cabinet War Rooms are in a maze of cellar rooms beneath the Government Office Building, north of Parliament Square.
		The Cabinet's underground headquarters included living quarters for government ministers and military leaders, and the Cabinet Room where many strategic decisions were taken.
		After 1945 the Cabinet War Rooms were abandoned and many of the 21 rooms were left untouched until the museum opened in 1984.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_museums/cabinetwar_rooms1.htm (255 words)

	Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms on AboutBritain.com
		The Map Room was the hub of daily activities - large scale maps of Britain, Europe and the Far Eastern theatres of war were pasted to the walls; troop movements and battle plans were detailed and perfected from the strategic level.
		The War Rooms were significantly expanded during the early forties, adding many more rooms and facilities, not least the Transatlantic Telephone room where a securely encrypted hot line phone to the American President was to be found.
		Over the course of the war the Cabinet War Rooms tripled in size before the lights were turned off and the doors finally closed in August 1945, following the announcement of victory in the Far East.
	www.aboutbritain.com /ChurchillMuseumAndCabinetWarRooms.htm (920 words)

	Secret war rooms
		From the day that the Cabinet War Rooms were ready for use, the Map Room was used and remained the centre point of the underground site until Victory in Japan day.
		The Central War Rooms were used extensively from September 1940 to May 1941, during the Blitz.
		A scrambler codenamed 'Sigsaly' was connected to this room which created the hot-line enabling Churchill and the President of the United States to have vital discussions with total security.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/page110.asp (543 words)

	The Churchill Museum is to open this week - combine it with the Cabinet War Rooms for a great family day out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Cabinet War Rooms were created in 1938 from a storage basement of what is now Her Majesty's Treasury to allow the Prime Minister and the War Cabinet to live and work in safety during enemy bombing raids.
		The Cabinet War Rooms was opened to the public in1984 by Her Majesty The Queen.
		The Cabinet War Rooms are a branch of the Imperial War Museum.
	www.familyrapp.com /Results/archive_results_details.asp?ArticleID=1342 (1051 words)

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		Images of hidden rooms The Churchill Project Background The Cabinet War Rooms as seen today and as opened by the Imperial War Museum to the public in1984, comprise only one third of the total area that the CWR occupied by 1945.
		For decades after the war this complex of tiny rooms that had served for so long as the nerve centre of military planning was used by the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury to store their archive, on shelves jammed between the period steel girders and the concrete ARP slab above.
		There were only chemical toilets at the CWR during the war, and legend has it that the toilet lock, which graces the entrance door to the Transatlantic Telephone Room nowadays, was inserted to disguise the true purpose of this top secret room.
	www.hlf.org.uk /NR/rdonlyres/1C68EDFE-0469-42B1-91A2-33A3A83FFD0A/1024/CabinetWarRoomsNHMFinformationsheet.doc (1196 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms Articles \| Cabinet War Rooms Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cabinet war rooms cabinet war rooms part of the imperial war museum web site, the cabinet war rooms section provides information about the development of churchill's second world war underground complex as a museum.
		Churchill and the cabinet war rooms, john james evanson, james faulkner, eve matheson, david tate, roy purcell, peggy shields, bill duffries, ernest j.
		Cabinet war rooms one week before world war ii the cabinet war rooms became operational below ground, 100 metres from 10 downing street.
	www.cabinetsandmore.info /cabinet-war-rooms.html (1028 words)

	Rainy Day Traveler - Cabinet War Rooms - London
		The Cabinet War Rooms was one of the very first museums I visited when we moved to London and I have been back half a dozen times since.
		Upon seeing the underground Cabinet Room, he said that this was the room from which he would direct the war.
		More than five years later, at the end of the war, the lights were turned off for the first time since the beginning of the war and the doors were closed; the war rooms were forgotten.
	www.rainydaytraveler.com /RainyDayTraveler/London/Rainy_Day_London_CabinetWarRooms.htm (606 words)

	ISE Card Featured Discount: Cabinet War Rooms
		In August 1939, the Cabinet War Rooms became operational in a former government storage basement, safe from the ferocious air attacks on London.
		The thirty rooms of this refuge became the secret nerve centre of Britain's war effort.
		The Cabinet War Rooms have been kept exactly as they were before the lights were finally extinguished after 6 years of war.
	www.isecard.com /featured/cabinetwarrooms (105 words)

	SoGoNow.com Vacation and Travel ideas - Cabinet War Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On August 16, 1945, with the Allies victorious and the rooms no longer needed, the lights were turned off in the Central Map Room for the first time since 1940.The rooms, which include Churchill's office-bedroom, the Communications Room, the Transatlantic Telephone Room, and the Cabinet Room, went dark and stayed undisturbed for decades.
		Visitors enter the Cabinet War Rooms and, with free audio equipment, walking through tunnels from one room to another as they retrace the corridors where Churchill and his staff waged war from beneath the city as bombs dropped on London.
		This room was used from the very first day that the Cabinet War Rooms were ready and remained as the nerve center for this underground war --- until the day after VJ Day.It remains as it was on that
	www.sogonow.com /archives/2005/08/cabinet_war_roo.php (661 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms London England UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Among the many new weapons and threats which the First World War introduced to mankind was the aerial bombardment of cities: the attempt to destroy centres of commerce, civilian life and, above all, government, which until then had been remote from the physical impact of conflict.
		Schemes for the evacuation of the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, and its administrative machinery were prepared as early as the 1920s.
		The Churchill Museum : The Cabinet War Rooms are creating the first ever museum dedicated to the complete life and times of Winston Churchill, the greatest Briton ever to have lived, according to a BBC poll.
	www.where-can-i-find.com /UK_Attractions/Attractions/Cabinet_War_Rooms.htm (941 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms Move to Expand - The Churchill Centre
		Reed (preed@iwm.org.uk) is curator of London's Cabinet War Rooms.
		As is the way with such long campaigns, the issue was resolved in a very short space of time, as all parties suddenly and very rudely found themselves up against immutable tight deadlines.
		This seemed to me to offer the last chance for the CWR to "reclaim" the territory that it once owned, but which had been cruelly annexed since the war by the Ministry of Defence Photography Unit and HM Treasury's archive.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=361 (820 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms - Things to do in London - All in London
		Within the war rooms were living quarters for military leaders and government officials.
		After the war was won, the 21 rooms were abandoned, lying largely as they were left until the site was turned into a museum in 1984.
		The Cabinet war Rooms give a fascinating insight into the day to day practicalities of running a war that affected the entire globe.
	www.allinlondon.co.uk /cabinet-war-rooms.php (304 words)

	Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The War Cabinet would have 115 meetings in the largest of the rooms during the war.
		The nerve center of the Rooms was the Map Room, manned 24 hours per day by officers of the Army, Navy, and RAF.
		All clocks in the rooms today are set a 5 pm, when the War Cabinet met on Oct. 15.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/WW2Timeline/churchill-rooms.html (379 words)

	the government moves underground
		The Central War Rooms (or Cabinet War Rooms as they are known today) were created in the basement of the Office of Works building on the Horse Guards side, ten feet under the ground.
		These rooms were used to store files and furniture before they were chosen as the secret war headquarters.
		During the war it was used by RAF Bomber Command.
	www.pm.gov.uk /output/page109.asp (623 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Cabinet War Rooms is where Winston Churchill, his Cabinet, his Intelligence organization, and his staff worked and lived in 1940 while the streets of London above were under attack.
		Visiting this museum, you see everything just as it was over 60 years ago, during the war, the rooms preserved the way they were the day they left the shelter.
		The Cabinet War Rooms is located at Clive Steps, King Charles Street, London SWIA 2AQ.
	www.pitmon.com /london/cabinet.phtml (243 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms - London restaurant reviews and booking from toptable.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On becoming PM in May 1940, "the man of the 20th century", Winston Churchill visited the underground War Cabinet Rooms and declared: "This is a room from which I will direct the war".
		When the war ended the rooms were abandoned, known about only by senior government figures until in 1981 Margaret Thatcher declared the site as an educational museum.
		Each of varying capacity, there's the business mod-con filled Auditorium and Plant Room 7, the shiny-floored Churchill Room (soon to be turned into a museum) which suits dinner dances and similar receptions, and the smaller Switchboard Room.
	www.toptable.co.uk /details.cfm?rid=1673&refid=zone (293 words)

	Cabinet War Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Cabinet War Rooms are a former bunker in Whitehall in London close to the heart of the United Kingdom government.
		Beyond the fact that the room was not completely safe from a direct hit by a large bomb, there is nothin...
		Civil War Explosion, Express Edition lets you relive America's greatest and most tragic conflict as you fight historic battles, control huge armies, and perhaps change the outcome of the war.
	www.freeglossary.com /Cabinet_War_Rooms (476 words)

	CABINET WAR ROOMS
		These offices, which are on 2 layers, consisted of sleeping quarters, canteen, shooting ranges, and a map room, Churchill’s private bedroom, along with many other rooms where important decisions were made during air raids.
		When you are in the rooms you discover how Winston Churchill would have run meetings and operations.
		You can notice the difference between the rooms, where Churchill had a luxury room and the high rank officers had good rooms too, but the juniors were less fortunate.
	www.londontaxitour.com /london-taxi-tour-sights-military-museum-cabinet-war-rooms.htm (192 words)

	Welcome to the Imperial War Museum
		The wars of the twentieth century have affected each and every one of us in some way, and the Imperial War Museum is here to tell all our stories, covering all aspects of life in wartime.
		The Churchill Museum is the first national museum dedicated to Sir Winston Churchill. It is housed in the unique setting of the Cabinet War Rooms, the underground complex where Churchill and his government met as bombs rained down on London in 1940.
		War memorials are a familiar sight in the landscape of the UK (United Kingdom). They provide insight into not only the changing face of commemoration but also military history, social history and art history.
	www.iwm.org.uk (317 words)

	The Cabinet War Rooms \| Away.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By the middle of the 1920s they were already estimating the damage London might sustain in another major war, and the projections grew grimmer as military aviation came of age.
		Among their concerns was the need to either evacuate or protect the essential personnel needed to sustain the war effort, primarily the Cabinet, the Chiefs of Staff, and the Deputy Chiefs.
		From 1940 through 1945, Churchill's War Cabinet met in these rooms more than one hundred times, primarily during the Blitz of 1940 and the V-1 and V-2 campaigns in 1944 and 1945.
	away.com /primedia/military/cabinet_war_rooms.html (494 words)

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