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Still, the Clubhouse survived. One imagines members of the aircraft factory staff drinking pink gin in the yellow Billiards Room while the bombs raged, carrying on in the ever-civil, ever stoical way of Britons from, if not time immemorial, certainly the two centuries previous. In the pink Ladies' Reading Room sits a gramophone with a pile of 78 LPs; did it play through the Blitz while the ladies chatted? Perhaps my imagination is too informed by the BBC; I do not mean to take lightly the death toll at Brooklands, nor the British fortitude which caused that country to rise, phoenix-like, from the ashes left by the Luftwaffe. But there is an aura to these rooms that speaks of survival as well as HYLAND

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