Protection from the Airraids?

Along with the British Museum, I spent two hours last weekend touring the Cabinet War Rooms on a special tour that went 'behind the glass'-quite literally-with the museum director. The Cabinet War Rooms were where the British War Cabinet met during WWII. 12 feet underground a few blocks from Parliament, the War Rooms were barely protection from the airraids they were supposed to protect against; even analysis at the time showed that the ceilings would have collapsed under a near-direct bomb hit. Nonetheless, but the time that that analysis came out, the War Cabinet had established themselves there and Sir Winston didn't want to move--so they didn't.

behind the glass in the Cabinet War Rooms
(props to Peter for the photo)

It was a wonderful tour; however, that being said, I'm certainly going back. We had an important lunch date and only had 15 minutes in the vast museum devoted to Sir Winston that followed the Cabinet rooms.