Dear Ms Finnegan,
For what it is worth, here is a link to my review for H-Museum of the
Churchill Museum, as it was called when it opened in 2005.
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-museum&month=0504&week=d&msg=qV4TxPYy0cbW8Hd7u0Re4g&user=&pw=
The lay-out and exhibits may have been modified, but hopefully you will
recognise some elements seen on your recent visit.
Many thanks for your enthusisastic account.
Could you please give more details of the "US DVD copy of Mr. Churchill's
funeral service in 1965" which you mention? All I have seen so far is
excerpts (including in the Churchill War Rooms).
Best wishes,
Antoine Capet
(Rouen, France)
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From: "PatFinn1940" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 6:11 PM
To: "ChurchillChat" <[email protected]>
Subject: [ChurchillChat] Visiting the Churchill War Rooms
Greetings to my fellow Churchillians! I recently returned to the US
from an incredible visit to the UK and Belgium. There were many
highlights to savour and remember--including breakfast with Churchill
biographer Sir Martin Gilbert, at St Pancras Station, and meeting Mr.
Allen Packwood, the Archivist at the Churchill Archives at Churchill
College, Cambridge. Mr. Packwood showed me several of Churchill's
childhood and young adult letters to his mother, and part of one of
Churchill's photograph albums.
I was also able to visit the Churchill War Rooms in London, and found
them to be SO fascinating! The Imperial War Museum is to be
commended, for all the work they did in restoring the War Rooms; I
really felt like I was part of what was going on in those rooms, in
1940 and 1941. I took a whole lot of photographs, and listened
intently to the commentaries on the mobile devices provided.
I also visited Ypres, Belgium, from 10-13 November, and saw the plaque
about Mr. Churchill's Great War service, at Ploegsteert, on the city
hall's wall (I think that's what it was). I wasn't able to get a
photo of that, however; I was on a Great War battlefields tour.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get to Blenheim Palace, or to Bladon. The
logistics of getting to Oxford and back were too much, in the time
allotted. But I am very hopeful of returning to the UK in the near
future, and putting them on my itinerary. At least I was able to buy
a US DVD copy of Mr. Churchill's funeral service in 1965, so I can
watch it on my computer.
And I also bought a copy of "The WIcked Wit of Winston Churchill",
which has provided many moments of laughter!
If anyone wants to hear more about my Cabinet War Rooms visit, please
email me. Thanks for letting me post here; I am always learning
something new and interesting about Churchill here!
Sincerely,
(Ms.) Pat Finnegan
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