Vintage fans, particularly for WWII will love BP as much of it is set up as it would have been back in the day of the code breakers. If you are unaware of the history then please have a thorough google, basically, here during the war, code breakers de-cyphered the codes of the enemy, a breakthrough which helped us win the war eventually. Inventions in code breaking lead to the first computer and on the site of Bletchley Park is a computer museum which houses the most famous of all machines, The Colossus. So if you are motivated to go then please don't forget to find Colossus which is round the corner.
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| an Enigma machine, one of many portable code generators |
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| The American Bombe - on of the many code breaking machines developed at the park |
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| Lorenz Cipher machine, a large non portable code generating machine |
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| Andy Mellett-Brown the author of The Shelter |
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| most of the staff at BP were women and its great to see the huts furnished with clothes and handbags |
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| not authentic war time food, more like school dinners. |
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| the whole place became derelict, as some of it still is, but with the perseverance of dedicated volunteers, the park was saved, although there is still plenty more to do and they need your help |
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| sculpture of Alan Turing soon to be played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a new film about his life called The Imitation Game |
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| Colossus |
