Visit to Bletchley Park

.On a gloriously sunny day in June three coaches of members and friends descended on Bletchley Park and stepped back to the 1940’s.

Once a best kept secret now Bletchley is a treasured heritage site designed to preserve the important story of the code breakers during World War 2.

 

 

 

Bletchley was the head quarters of Britain’s cryptanalytic and signals intelligence organisation between 1939 and 1946, which was recently restored with lottery funding in 2014

 

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The enigma machine with a code that took so many years to break, but once cracked by Alan Turing and his group – led to greater successes during WWII and people believe, shortened it by about 2 years.

 

 

 

 

 

The conditions the codebreakers worked in were very primitive.  The huts themselves had bare plank floors and plywood walls with no insulation — they must have been freezing in the winter! The furniture is wooden desks and chairs, or, as in this room, plywood sheets laid across trestles.

 

 

However for us Bletchley park provide a delightful setting complete with lake for our members to enjoy a full day exploring the buildings, grounds, exhibitions and galleries.

A fascinating day full of memories.

Jill Williams