Western Approaches
Restored wartime bunker that ran the Battle of the Atlantic, with its two-storey operations room.
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This guide to Western Approaches in Liverpool climbs from the wartime bunker to the top floor of Derby House in November nineteen forty-two, when the new commander-in-chief, Admiral Max Horton, sat down to play a game against a young Wren named Janet Okell. You'll meet Gilbert Roberts, the sidelined destroyer captain who turned a lino floor into a stage of canvas screens and chalk, and the young women who ran it. Best heard standing in the operations room.
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