The weather was on the chilly side today, but it looks like it will get warmer for the rest of the week. 19 degrees! As opposed to 14 today. Oh well.
Today was a continuation of the "History Tour". I went down to the Cabinet War Rooms near the Halls of Parliament. These were the rooms that Churchill and his Cabinet ran the British part of WWII until three weeks after VE-Day. Non stop from the beginning of the Blitz through the buzz bombs and then the end of the European war.
Then the last people who were on duty there simply turned off the lights and locked up. Parts of the complex were stripped out and used for storage and the like, but the truly historic parts such as the map room where convoys were tracked and battle statistics were kept were left as they were in 1945 when that afforementioned fellow turned out the lights and locked the door.
One sad testament if you're British; the maps still showed the extent of Empire, which no longer exists except in the mind of those who miss it.
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