Bletchley Park Gets £4.6 Million Restoration

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday October 4, 2011 @09:19PM from the heavy-support dept.

mikejuk writes "Bletchley Park has secured a £4.6 million Heritage Lottery Fund Grant for the establishment of a visitor center dedicated to the World War II Codebreakers. This year saw the unveiling of a new memorial to the Codebreakers in the grounds of Bletchley Park by the Queen. Shortly after her visit, a new fundraising campaign for the restoration of the iconic huts where the code-breaking teams worked was inaugurated, with help and sponsorship from Google. The grant will enable the restoration of Codebreaking Huts 1, 3 and 6, and create a world-class visitor center and exhibition in the currently derelict Block C. The Bletchley Park Trust has launched the 'Action This Day' campaign to raise the match funding now needed."

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Re:enigma by Shimbo · 2011-10-04 22:18 · Score: 4, Informative

It is a shame that on their site there is nothing about polish "coders" who in 1932 broke the enigma code and made it available for British and French intelligence...
You didn't look very hard. http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/history/polish.rhtm
U571 by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-04 22:25 · Score: 5, Funny

i hope they have recognition for the brave crew of U571 and Matthew McConaughey
1. Re:U571 by ledow · 2011-10-04 23:12 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Flamebaiting bastard.
  (As most UK people will know, the movie U-571 is entirely bullshit about how the US captured an Enigma machine from a boat that, in real life, was never involved)
  Wonder how the Yanks would feel about a British movie depicting the Boston Tea Party as a British success...
Great by Black+Parrot · 2011-10-04 23:23 · Score: 3, Insightful

Too bad they can't give Alan Turing his life back.

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