The Explore
This is one of them places I've been meaning to go and see for so long, always been fascinated by WW2 history and stuff like that. The plan originally was to have a look at the museums as well but some local explores changed that plan. Took us a while to find a way in as all the old ways had been sealed and with only a few sides of the building away from the prying eyes of the museum goers it was a risky one getting inside..
Was good to see all the bits and bobs left behind and the replica of the "bombe" was nice to see, believe it was used in the film "The imitation game".. sadly we couldn't get too far up some of the corridors as seems the museum are using a bit more of the disused bit now and there was a few guys up there we had to avoid.
The History
Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and that without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain.
This is one of them places I've been meaning to go and see for so long, always been fascinated by WW2 history and stuff like that. The plan originally was to have a look at the museums as well but some local explores changed that plan. Took us a while to find a way in as all the old ways had been sealed and with only a few sides of the building away from the prying eyes of the museum goers it was a risky one getting inside..
Was good to see all the bits and bobs left behind and the replica of the "bombe" was nice to see, believe it was used in the film "The imitation game".. sadly we couldn't get too far up some of the corridors as seems the museum are using a bit more of the disused bit now and there was a few guys up there we had to avoid.
The History
Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. According to the official historian of British Intelligence, the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and that without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain.
