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The Map Room came into use on the very first day that the Cabinet War Rooms were ready for occupation and never ceased to be the hub of the site until VJ Day. On the following day, 16 August 1945, the Map Room lights were finally turned out and the room was left almost exactly as it is today with every map, book, chart, pin and notice occupying the same position now that they occupied then.
The Map Room remained open day and night and the chief task of the officers manning this room was to collate and summarise all relevant information on the progress of the war and present it on maps, which would be constantly updated. ‘The Cabinet War Room Record’ was a daily news sheet that was compiled for transmission every morning to the Prime Minister, the Chiefs of Staff and the War Cabinet. One copy, for the attention of the King, was taken to Buckingham Palace by the Duty Officer every morning.
Four Map Room officers, representing each of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Home Security, sat either side of the long table in the centre of the room. The Duty Officer was selected from each service in turn and occupied the seat at the head of the table. The series of coloured telephones down the centre of the table were known to the Map Room officers as the ‘beauty chorus’ and had flashing lights as an alternative to bells – they were colour coded and used to communicate with intelligence services, another service war room or the War Rooms own switchboard. The three black phones with green receivers were fitted with scramblers, a device that rendered the conversation meaningless and just a jumble of noise until it was unscrambled at the receiving end.
The large map of the world covering the southern wall of the room hangs where it hung for most of the war. It was used to plot the position of convoys and the movements of individual warships – the thousands of tiny dots which cloud the surface of the map are pinholes left by markers shifted around by the map keepers. During the war this map became so perforated with pin-holes that the outlines of the principal convoy routes could be seen from the other end of the room.
The blackboard which hangs on one of the pillars was used during the Battle of Britain to note the numbers of enemy aircraft destroyed each day.
Access to the Map Room was strictly controlled. The privileged few who were allowed in included visiting heads of Allied countries or armed forces and the King and Queen themselves came to the Map Room in May 1942.
A public message to one of my sons…
I found the map to your imaginary kingdom on the back of a small note pad of mine.
If you want the high res file to input into your computer graphic program so you can continue to develop your kingdom, please let me know.
Photo taken for Macro Monday on flickr. Each week we post one or two photos showing our depiction of the weekly theme. This week’s theme is “Sideways, Upside-Down, or Backwards.”
I know this is an aerial plan of an amazing kingdom, but I'm not sure if I shot it upside-down or sideways.
Part of a Japanese map from the 1970s in a book on the region where volcanoes are located. Taken with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm 3.5 lens on an extension tube, on a Canon SL1 camera.
remix:
Hue black cable-effect tights
blue Gap cardigan
American Apparel cap sleeve t
"pleated" skirt I made with some Wal-Mart $1/yard map fabric, a book called "I wanna make my own clothes", my Hello Kitty sewing machine, and an iron on my floor
etienne aigner shoes, Value Village thrift, Newport KY
scarf, Value Village thrift, Newport KY
close ups in comments!
Crop from topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country : describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors : a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen’s country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country / from an actual survey by L.F. Douglass Engineer, Jersey City, 1841 ; engraved and printed by Sherman & Smith
This is how I make my maps. Embroidering over graph paper then ripping it away to reveal the fabric underneath.
39. Grand Prix Osterhas am Ostersamstag, 31. März 2018, auf der Lindenmoosstrasse in Affoltern am Albis..Foto Martin Platter