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Oh I do love Bletchley Park

Not many sites can claim to have changed the world and kick started the information age as we know it.

The history of the place changed the world as we know it and it's work during WW2 and the cold war were invaluable.

Currently there is work ongoing to help restore the site into a museum (as it should be)

Bletchley Park rejoices in the fact that, until fairly recently, it was probably Britain’s best kept secret. This is because the secrecy surrounding all the activities carried on here during World War Two was of vital importance to our national security and ultimate victory.

It was here that an organisation called the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) studied and devised methods to enable the Allied forces to decipher the military codes and ciphers that secured German, Japanese, and other Axis nation’s communications. The result of which was the production of vital intelligence in advance of military operations. Bletchley Park also heralded the birth of the information age with the industrialisation of the code breaking processes enabled by machines such as the Turing/Welchman Bombe, and the world’s first electronic computer, Colossus.
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I knew the operator there who, during a long night shift, suddenly saw the Enigma decoding. Her name as I knew her was Muriel Baines. She was my organ tutor, and a good friend. She died recently after a long battle with Altzheimer's. Even though she had trouble remembering her own son's name at times, any talk of Bletchley park provoked a stream of memories. She could describe the place, name former colleagues and could recount that night in great detail.

Thank you for posting this. I wonder if she worked in any of those rooms.
 
Great stuff Paul. I assume the vast majority of internal features left are a legacy of post war British Telecom occupation.
I first visited BP in about 1993, shortly after it opened to the public, as some fellow Radio Amateur friends were responsible for starting the rebuild of Colossus. :wcool: (closing down 'old fashioned' BT telephone exchanges supplied all the valves and relays that were required, though I doubt that BT knew that at the time, as they were being 'liberated' by enthusiasts. ;) )
 

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