See further information below:

"limey" wrote in message >
> "Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message > (nancree) wrote:
>>
>>> My children now travel to, say, London, and
>>>know about hotels, monuments, moments in earlier history. But I think
>>>it makes the visit more meaningful if they know about wartime London.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> The DH and I just spent a few days in London and visited the Cabinet
>> War Rooms near Westminster Abbey. Phenomonal. You want a good look and
>> feel of wartime London, have a look there. The unbelievably cramped
>> quarters, claustrophobic sleeping quarters for junior staff,
>> retro-fitted 3' slab of concrete to protect from bombs, primitive (by
>> our standards) communications room, etc. Esp. interesting was how
>> stark were the bedrooms for Churchill and the senior staff. Add to
>> that what must have been ghastly degrees of cigarette/cigar smoke,
>> collective human miasma that couldn't be filtered, no running water or
>> sewage facilities. It's a tribute to them all.
>>
>> Highly recommended to one and all.
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> Amazing, aren't they - and a recommended visit that I was going to
> include in the narrative I'm preparing for Nancree. The War Rooms are on
> a little street off Whitehall, near the Prime Minister's residence and
> Parliament.
>
> Here's a great site:
>
> http://cwr.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00f006
>
> Dora

If you and your children are interested in museums, The Imperial War Museum
is another impressive place. I have never been there since it's totally
across London, on the other side of the River Thames.

http://cwr.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00f006

Dora