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0 Churchill
of Whitehall. On Remembrance
Day every year – the Sunday War Rooms
nearest 11 November – the Clive Steps, King Charles St SW1.
monarch and other digni taries Map 13 B5. Tel 020 7930 6961.
place wreaths of red poppies on 1 Westminster, St James’s Park.
the Cenotaph. This solemn Open 9:30am–6pm daily (last adm:
ceremony, commem orating the 5pm). Closed 24–26 Dec, 1 Jan. &
1918 armistice, honours those 9 8 must book in advance 7
who have died while serving in - = ∑ iwm.org.uk Telephones in the Map Room of the Cabinet
the armed forces (see pp58–9). War Rooms
This intriguing slice of 20th-
century history is a warren of complete with period furniture,
rooms below the Government including Churchill’s desk,
Office building, where the War communi cations equipment
Cabinet met during World War II, and maps for plotting military
when German bombs were strategy. The Churchill Museum
falling on London. The War is a multimedia exhibit recording
Rooms include living quarters Churchill’s life and career, and a
for key ministers and military permanent display, Undercover:
leaders and a Cabinet Room, Life in Churchill’s Bunker, features
where many strategic decisions personal stories, objects and
were taken. They are laid out as interviews with those who
The Cenotaph they were when the war ended, worked in the War Rooms.
9 Downing Street some land near Whitehall Palace
and built a street of houses.
SW1. Map 13 B4. 1 Westminster.
Closed to the public. Four of these survive, though
they are much altered. King
Sir George Downing (1623–84) George II gave No. 10 to Sir
spent part of his youth in the Robert Walpole in 1732. Since
American colonies. He was then it has been the official
the second graduate from residence of the prime minister
the nascent Harvard College and contains offices as well as a
before returning to fight for the private apartment. In 1989, for
Parliamentarians in the English security reasons, iron gates were
Civil War. In 1680, he bought erected at the Whitehall end.
No. 12, the Whips’ Office, Government policy is
is where political campaigns decided in the Cabinet Room
are organized. at No. 10. The famous front door of No. 10
No. 11 is the Chancellor of the
Exchequer’s official residence.
The prime minister
No. 10 is the official home of the entertains official
prime minister. guests in the State
Dining Room.
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