A country house and grounds some 50 miles North of London, England, where highly secret work deciphering intercepted German milit
ary radio messages was c
arried out during World W
ar Two. Thousands of people were working there at the end of the w
ar, including a number of e
arly computer pioneers such as
Alan Turing. The nature and scale of the work has only emerged recently, with total secrecy having been observed by all the people involved. Throughout the w
ar, Bletchley P
ark produced highly important strategic and tactical intelligence used by the Allies, (Churchill' s "golden eggs"), and it has been claimed that the w
ar in Europe was probably shortened by two ye
ars as a result. An exhibition of w
artime code-breaking memorabilia, including an entire working
Colossus, restored by Tony Sale, can be seen at Bletchley P
ark on alternate weekends. The
Computer Conservation Society (CCS), a specialist group of the
British Computer Society runs a museum on the site that includes a working
Elliot mainframe computer and many e
arly
minicomputers and
microcomputers. The CCS hope to have substantial facilities for storage and restoration of old
artifacts, as well as
archive, libr
ary and rese
arch facilities. Telephone: Bletchley P
ark Trust office +44 (908) 640 404 (office hours and open weekends). (1998-12-18)
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