Churchill War Rooms

Steve again. Once more the girls declined to visit a site of great historical significance, this time the Churchill War Rooms in London. This is the fortified bunker near 10 Downing Street where Churchill and his staff made plans while Germany bombed London.

Supposedly, everything has been left as it was in 1945 when the war ended. There were a lot of tiny sleeping quarters and several larger rooms with tables and maps on the wall. And they had special "noiseless" typewriters because Churchill became deeply annoyed at the sound of typing. I guess the stress was getting to him, which is understandable.

If you saw "The Imitation Game," you may recognize this as an Enigma machine. The Germans invented this device to send encrypted messages during the way, but (spoiler alert!) the Brits got a hold of one and cracked the code. Nice work, Alan Turing and Co.