Bletchley Park Faces Financial Rescue

biscuitfever11 writes "Just two months ago it seemed that Bletchley Park, the home of Station X, Britain's secret code-breaking base during the War, was doomed as the codebreakers' huts rotted and the site fell into disrepair. But today Britain's Lottery Fund is set to step in with a grant to rescue the ailing heritage site. (There was an earlier story on ZDNet.)"

Comments

Conserving history

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the deal with those huts anyway?

I can totally get why we would preserve historical monuments like the Parthenon, Stonehenge or even the Millenium Eye.

But why bother with mathematicians' huts? It's just not a piece of history worth preserving. We should remember and honour their work, yes, and it will be better preserved through math than anything else. Spend the money on a few math scholarships and we're better of using Bletchley park for a new pub.

Re:Conserving history

[Frosty Piss]

You have a point. Have a lookie-see at the Google Earth or Microsloth Bird's Eye, most of the buildings around the original Stately Home are dull government boxes. Save the main building, yes. The crap-shacks can go. Google Map

Re:Too bad about the lottery

[couchslug]

To hell with the poor! Intelligent people, not idiot slugs, got us where we are today. Enough with the tiresome worship of poor people, who by and large are poor because of personal defects. The poor, and the backwardness they wallow in, are not worthy of anything but scorn and contempt.

A memorial to the accomplishments of determined and intelligent people funded by a the stupid is fine with me.