Restored Bletchly Park Opens

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @04:46AM from the things-to-see dept.

Graculus (3653645) writes with this excerpt from the BBC: Codebreakers credited with shortening World War Two worked in Bletchley Park, in structures built to last only a few years. Now, following a painstaking restoration, they have been brought back to life and Wednesday's official opening marks a remarkable turnaround from top secrecy to world wide attraction. With no photographs of the insides to work with, Bletchley Park looked to its most valuable resource — the veterans who worked there. A museum at the site has already been opened. The structures were once perilously close to being lost forever (until Google stepped in).

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Those sheds are sheds by TechyImmigrant · 2014-06-18 04:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

The sheds are (or were) rotton old sheds. Interesting stuff may happened in them, but they're still sheds.
The crown jewel of Bletchley is the national museum of computing, which is apparently treated like shit by the people who control the property and think the manor is the good bit. It isn't.

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Re:When nobody thought of privacy by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2014-06-18 05:54 · Score: 3, Insightful

Right, because there's absolutely no difference between spying on your enemies in a declared war and spying on your own citizens in peacetime.