This is Bletchley Park today, front facade. It was here that Axis codes were broken during World War II. It is also home to the first modern computer.
In 1938, the GPO laid a lot of telephone lines in, and the first code breakers moved in during August 1939. The location was picked because it was close to London, and an LMS Railway station was close by. There was also easy access to and from the most revered of British learning establishments, Oxford and Cambridge Universities, both supplying more than a few of the ‘brains’ behind the mission.
It is now home to the National Museum of Computing and the Radio Society of Great Britain, and is also open for corporate functions.
They say that the activities here by British and American cryptologists shortened the duration of the war by as many as four years. Three cheers for Bletchley Park and all who served there.
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