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English: Buildings at Bletchley Park. Originally the home of the financier and Liberal MP, Sir Herbert Samuel Leon (1850-1926), the Bletchley Park estate passed out of the Leon family in 1937. During World War II it became the site of the UK's main decryption effort and it was here that the codes and ciphers of several Axis countries were decrypted, among them the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. But it was not until the secrecy surrounding its activities was removed from the 1970s onwards that the enormous contribution of the codebreakers to the war effort became known together with their achievements in a whole range of spheres, from mathematics to computing.
Some 9,000 people worked at Bletchley Park at the height of the codebreaking efforts, many of the teams being housed initially in temporary wooden huts before being moved into more permanent brick-built buildings, shown here. After the war, the site belonged to several owners, but by 1991 it was nearly empty and at risk of redevelopment. In 1992 the Bletchley Park Trust was formed to maintain the site as a museum devoted to the codebreakers, but despite the buildings on the site being of significant historic importance they have suffered neglect through inadequate funding. See also . . . . 1593262; 1593263; 1593265; 1592906; 1592914; 1593071; 1592862; 1592868; 1592873 |
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| Author | Ian Petticrew |
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