Rob
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interesting stuff. I am fascinated in the work undertook at Bletchley et al. As vital to the winning of the war as the guys on the front lines IMO.
Very clever men and women but, hey it was not so hard was it with a nut like Adolf and his high command goons!!!
Mitch
Very clever men and women but, hey it was not so hard was it with a nut like Adolf and his high command goons!!!
Mitch
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I was fortunate enough to be able to work at Bletchley Park when it had become BT's Management College - and before the site was re-developed. The old Mansion House was (and is) a listed building - as are some of the wooden huts remaining on the site. The site for Collosus ( the computer) was gone - but the footings and a few courses of brick remained to indicate where it once stood. Many of the "Post Office Engineers", as they were once called worked on building the machine - quite a lot of it from telephone exchange equipment parts. Many of these were the backroom boys and "unsung heroes" that made the thing work. I met one or two of them - quiet chaps all.
The "canteen" building just outside of the gates was still there too - and we used it still for that function. One of the surviving wooden huts, (in a poor structural condition) , had quite a macabre reputation. It had been used as a morgue, at one point during the war - and many people said that it gave them a strange feeling whilst inside the building - though I am happy to say that I wasn't one of them.
The mansion house was the real gem, however - as it was practically unchanged from how it was during the war. Many of the rooms inside had pictures showing how they once were - and could be compared with how they were when I left there in 1993. Most were remarkably unchanged. There were quite a few pictures dotted about of Winston Churchill too - and it was possible then, to sit in the same place as he did.
I believe that part of the place is now a museum - but I have not been back there since. It was a nice place to have worked in - and many pleasant memories of it live on - and I'm rather pleased that parts of it will too. johnnybach
The "canteen" building just outside of the gates was still there too - and we used it still for that function. One of the surviving wooden huts, (in a poor structural condition) , had quite a macabre reputation. It had been used as a morgue, at one point during the war - and many people said that it gave them a strange feeling whilst inside the building - though I am happy to say that I wasn't one of them.
The mansion house was the real gem, however - as it was practically unchanged from how it was during the war. Many of the rooms inside had pictures showing how they once were - and could be compared with how they were when I left there in 1993. Most were remarkably unchanged. There were quite a few pictures dotted about of Winston Churchill too - and it was possible then, to sit in the same place as he did.
I believe that part of the place is now a museum - but I have not been back there since. It was a nice place to have worked in - and many pleasant memories of it live on - and I'm rather pleased that parts of it will too. johnnybach