The Cabinet Room, Cabinet War Rooms, London

During their visit to London, the pupils from Inver and Cauldeen schools spent a morning at the Cabinet War Rooms where they enjoyed a guided tour of the museum and watched actors perform a play specially commissioned for the sixtieth anniversary celebrations, “The Night Before D-Day. The rooms provided a secret underground headquarters from which the Prime Minister could direct the war effort. On his first visit in May 1940, standing in the underground Cabinet Room, Churchill boldly announced, "This is the room from which I will direct the war”. Cabinet meetings could start and finish at any time of the day or night. Churchill, who was famed for retiring late, occasionally called meetings here during the evening bombing raids of 1940 and 1941 and sometimes brought them to a close long after midnight.