To Mayfair, there to plunge into the bowels of London for a tour of Down Street tube station: opened in 1907, closed in 1932, & used by Churchill & the war cabinet as a bunker until the Cabinet War Rooms were up & running.
Thank you, @daisychristo, for sourcing the ticket!
Thank you, @daisychristo, for sourcing the ticket!
We get a torch! And a lanyard! 
Only now do I realise that this was once a Tube station
I'll say this for @daisychristo - she knows how to show a chap a good time of a Saturday evening...
Telephone exchange deep under an abandoned Tube station under Picadilly, from which the entire British rail network was run during the Second World War
Bath used by Churchill, during the height of the Blitz, and a tunnel which features an alcove added in 1944, from which Churchill (code name 'a certain gentleman') made calls to Roosevelt.
My thanks to to @ltmuseum for a truly sensational tour.
My thanks to to @ltmuseum for a truly sensational tour.
A brilliant evening! If you get the chance to visit Down Street Tube Station, on no account miss it...
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