Churchill's Dining Room

This was the private dining room used by the Churchills. The room is one of the sequence of rooms, now known as ‘The Churchill Suite’ into which the Cabinet War Rooms expanded in 1941 to provide chambers for Winston Churchill, his private staff and his wife, Clementine.

All of the rooms in the ‘Churchill Suite’ were stripped out at the end of the war and were subsequently used as low-grade storage until their restoration in 2003. The work of restoration was greatly assisted by a series of detailed photographs that were taken of the rooms at the end of the war. Using these, every effort was made to make the rooms resemble their original wartime format. Although most of the furnishings had to be found from government office basements, second-hand shops and the attics and garages of private individuals, some of the original room contents were kept and have been restored to their previous wartime location. Of the contents in this room, the dining table, sideboard and serving trolley are all original.