Chartwell

The home of Winston Churchill. The National Trust acquired it in 1947. Churchill had no money after the war, and risked losing his home. The solution was a group of wealthy individuals buying it for the National Trust, on condition that he and his wife remain there until their deaths. After he died in 1965 she decided to move out, and it opened to the public in 1966.

It’s a fascinating place. Clementine helped the Trust take it back to how it had been in the 1920’s and 30’s, and in a few rooms it incorporates fascinating memorabilia. But it does feel like a family home, and quite domestic in scale.

Churchill was internationalist in outlook, and quite the European. Heaven knows what he would have made of things as they currently are. Not I suspect quite as some imagine.

Oh ! And the winds and rain have suddenly vanished. Promising for the coming week.