Eden Rowling-Ashworth, 9 Firle, writes:
Our school trip to the Churchill War Rooms
and HMS Belfast
It all started at
7:30 in the morning; we got up, came to school and got on the coach. We
travelled for two hours to central London and
the bus driver dropped us off a five minute walk away from the Churchill War
Rooms. As we got to the entrance we took a minute to look at the memorial of
the Bali bombings. We looked at the sculpture
and the names of all the victims.
Then a guide took as around the back entrance
of the War Rooms down a set of stairs and into the War Rooms. We sat down in a
room and watched a short clip about the Blitz and the war. Next we briskly
threw our bags in a room and were whisked off down the corridor into a
classroom. That was when the real fun began. Our class was divided up into
six groups, all with different tasks to complete. For example, typewriting,
decoding and map plotting. When we finished that we were allowed to look around
the War Rooms on our own.
We saw everything; Churchill’s bedroom, his office and the map room. The map is frozen in
time. We then left the War Rooms and had a brisk walk and sat down in the park.
Then we ate lunch and walked back to the coach.
A 15 minute journey and we were at HMS
Belfast. We walked aboard and looked around. When you entered, a great torpedo
was in front of you. It was around 5 metres long with a rounded top. We
then walked around the ship. Up and
down the ladders all at 10 degrees, (it was extremely easy to hit your head). Then
we looked at the guns. They were huge monsters; you could see they were made to
kill. Also there were huge engines and machines all over the ship, (which many
sailors would sleep over). It was amazing.
Then we grouped up
again and made our way back to the coach, it took us two hours to get back, but we didn’t mind. London
