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Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following 1883 for the financier and politician Herbert Leon in the Victorian Gothic , Tudor and Dutch Baroque ...
Judith Irene Bloomfield (worked in Bletchley Park Mansion and Hut 8. Also the Foreign Office intelligence unit in Berkeley Street, London) T. S. R. Boase (art historian) Arthur Bonsall (Director of GCHQ) Elsie Booker, Wren, in photo with Dorothy Du Boisson; Ruth Bourne (née Henry), Bombe operator [5] (in 2012 she was a volunteer guide at BP [6]
It is available for corporate, group, school, and individual visitors. Although located on the Bletchley Park 'campus', The National Museum of Computing is an entirely separate registered charity [5] with its own admission fee. It receives no public funding and relies on ticket sales and the generosity of donors and supporters.
A guided tour of the history and geography of the Park, written by one of the founder members of the Bletchley Park Trust. Gannon, Paul (2006). Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret. London: Atlantic Books. ISBN 1-84354-330-3. Price, David A. (2021). Geniuses at War; Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age. New York: Knopf.
Between 1992 and 2007, Sale and volunteers rebuilt a functioning replica of the Colossus (computer) Mark II which is on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. [7] [8] Sale and his wife Margaret had three children and seven grandchildren. Margaret continued as a volunteer guide at the museum for many years after Tony's death.
A statue of Alan Turing, created in slate by Stephen Kettle in 2007, is located at Bletchley Park in England as part of an exhibition that honours Turing (1912–1954). [1] [2] It was commissioned by the American businessman and philanthropist Sidney Frank (1919–2006).
Joel Greenberg (born 1946) is an educational technology consultant and historian on the role of Bletchley Park in World War II. [1] [2] The mansion at Bletchley Park, where Joel Greenberg studies its history and conducts tours. Greenberg gained a PhD degree in numerical mathematics from the University of Manchester in 1973.
Keith Batey (4 July 1919 – 28 August 2010 [1]) was a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey (5 May 1921 – 12 November 2013 [2]), worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II. [1]