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1930s – 1940s: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret: Colossus
Colossus: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret
What you need to know before your trail
In 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of the Second World War, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in a strange new code. Using science, maths, innovation and improvisation BletchleyPark codebreakers worked furiously to invent a machine to decipher what turned out to be the secrets of Nazi high command. It was called Colossus.
Locations
Reset- England - Buckinghamshire - Bletchley
- A: The National Museum of Computing
- B: Bletchley Park - The train station
- C: Hut 12
- D: Hut 11
- E: Bletchley Park Mansion
Travel Guide
Bletchley Park
See the real Colossus for yourself
“Using science, maths, innovation and improvisation BletchleyPark codebreakers worked furiously to invent a machine to decipher what turned out to be the secrets of Nazi high command. It was called Colossus.
What these codebreakers didn’t realize was that they had fashioned the world’s first true computer. When the war ended, this incredible invention was dismantled and hidden away for almost 50 years. Paul Gannon has pieced together the tremendous story of what is now recognized as the greatest secret of BletchleyPark.”
The huts are a lot smaller than you think, the park itself so compact that you can’t imagine how so many people could work here and work here without knowing what everyone else was doing. This is one place you will never ever forget once you’ve seen it through your own eyes.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Colossus: Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret
Destination: Bletchley Author/Guide: Paul Gannon Departure Time: 1930s -1940s
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