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1930s -1950s: The Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre
The Lost World of Bletchley Park
What you need to know before your trail
The first comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate under the Liberal MP Sir Herbert Leon, through its wartime requisition with the addition of the famous huts within the grounds, to become the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum whose visitor numbers have more than doubled in the last five years.
Locations
Reset- England - Bletchley Park
- A: Bletchley Park - The train station
- B: Hut 12
- C: Hut 11
- D: The Cottages
- E: Bletchley Park Mansion
Travel Guide
Bletchley Park
This really has to be seen to be believed. The cramped conditions, the cold winds rattling through the doors, the basic tables and chairs, the lack of comforts and the secrecy. But amidst all that some of the best brains in the country saved millions from death by shortening the war by about two years.
When you get to see Alan Turing’s desk – speechless. This man’s story is more than retold here – there’s even a brick in an honorary wall bearing his name. And his office was so small! Oh and that huge machine he built – remarkable. There are no words to describe what he achieved and what it’s like standing in the very spot he made history.
The huge success of Sinclair’s The Secret Life of Bletchley Park has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engrossing museum of wartime codebreaking.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Lost World of Bletchley Park
Destination: Bletchley Author/Guide: Sinclair McKay Departure Time: 1930s -1950s
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