For those, like myself, who had not previously had a tour of the building, the sheer beauty of the renovation was striking. Being guided around the rooms by the Guildhall Manager, Suzanne Stevenson, was like stripping off the layers of a manuscript and looking at the traces of what lies beneath. So we went from the present to the 2nd world War to the Stuarts, to the Tudor kitchen, to the Medieval world of Henry III .
If the aim of the day was to thank and enthuse the volunteers, then it was a resounding success. I can’t wait to see the “funky” Royal Observer Corps Operations Room with its silhouettes of airplanes flying across the roof.
Wednesday 14th March 2018. John Byrne