Picture No | 10428225 |
Date | 1949 |
Description | Downing Street sectional drawing |
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A cut-away illustration of No. 10 Downing Street: 'the quiet backwater from which great men have ruled a great empire'. 10 Downing Street from the garden front with Nos 11 and 12 at right. Use of some of the principal rooms in 1940: 1. official dining room; 2. breakfast room; 3. cupboard; 4. official drawing room; 5. small drawing room; 6. boudoir; 7. Chancellor of the Exchequer's drawing room; 8. housekeeper's office; 9. kitchen; 10. clerical offices; 11. secretaries' offices; 12. Private Secretary's office; 13. Cabinet Room; 14. Chancellor of the Exchequer's office; 15. Chief Whip's office.
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Source | Illustration by George Horace Davis in The Illustrated London News, 5 March 1949 pages 304 & 305 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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