Bletchley Mansion 2014
Looking today at the mansion in this idyllic setting one cannot imagine the top secret work once carried out here also the number of people involved in helping shorten the war by around two years which resulted in saving countless lives.
The story is both fascinating, intriguing and much too long to cover in a blog one also could not do justice to the dedication, hard work and loyalty of all who worked and lived at Bletchley Park and it's outstations.
I have included a small extract of what went on 24/7 throughout the 2nd world war courtesy of the official website and I hope you will use the links to gain more information and I encourage you to visit Bletchley Park, when you have the opportunity.
The story is both fascinating, intriguing and much too long to cover in a blog one also could not do justice to the dedication, hard work and loyalty of all who worked and lived at Bletchley Park and it's outstations.
I have included a small extract of what went on 24/7 throughout the 2nd world war courtesy of the official website and I hope you will use the links to gain more information and I encourage you to visit Bletchley Park, when you have the opportunity.
The arrival of ‘Captain Ridley's Shooting Party’ at a mansion house in the Buckinghamshire countryside in late August 1938 was to set the scene for one of the most remarkable stories of World War Two. They had an air of friends enjoying a relaxed weekend together at a country house. They even brought with them one of the best chefs at the Savoy Hotel to cook their food. But the small group of people who turned up at Bletchley Park were far from relaxed. They were members of MI6, and the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), a secret team of individuals including a number of scholars turned Codebreakers. Their job; to see whether Bletchley Park would work as a wartime location, well away from London, for intelligence activity by GC&CS as well as elements of MI6.
The GC&CS mission was to crack the Nazi codes and ciphers. The most famous of the cipher systems to be broken at Bletchley Park was the Enigma. There were also a large number of lower-level German systems to break as well as those of Hitler's allies. At the start of the war in September 1939 the codebreakers returned to Bletchey Park to begin their war-winning work in earnest.
The first operational break into Enigma came around the 23 January 1940 when the team unraveled the German Army administrative key, once achieved they went on to break numerous codes manually, eventually using the computer “Colossus” One must realise as the war progressed the “Enigma” machines and codes became increasingly more complicated resulting in additional time required to break.
I hope you are sufficiently intrigued to follow up through the links or make a visit to Bletchley Park the story also involves spy’s, double agents and misinformation.
The GC&CS mission was to crack the Nazi codes and ciphers. The most famous of the cipher systems to be broken at Bletchley Park was the Enigma. There were also a large number of lower-level German systems to break as well as those of Hitler's allies. At the start of the war in September 1939 the codebreakers returned to Bletchey Park to begin their war-winning work in earnest.
The first operational break into Enigma came around the 23 January 1940 when the team unraveled the German Army administrative key, once achieved they went on to break numerous codes manually, eventually using the computer “Colossus” One must realise as the war progressed the “Enigma” machines and codes became increasingly more complicated resulting in additional time required to break.
I hope you are sufficiently intrigued to follow up through the links or make a visit to Bletchley Park the story also involves spy’s, double agents and misinformation.
