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Great news the Hut of the year 2009 Hut 6 is going to be restored to it’s former glory along with the other coderbreaking sheds over at Bletchley Park Congrats to all the campaigners who have worked hard to see the nations best know sheds saved! A landmark victory for the Bletchley Park Trust… Continue reading Great news for Bletchley Park – the Codebreaking sheds are being restored
The buzz on the internet yesterday/today (depends where you look) was about a House that has been there for years and @charlidickenson saw it and posted a picture of it – she thought it looked like Hitler, and who are we not to jump on the bandwagon. That’s ridiculous really – but thankfully the Huts… Continue reading The house that looks like hitler – pah we have the Bletchley Park huts to sort out that nonsense
After our Auction for bletchley park last week of Signed MOON DVDs, Shed Judge Sarah Beenys hard hat and some great shed books we raised a total of £381.09 that will go to the Bletchley Park Trust. many thanks for all your support and Who ever won the Door Handle from Hut 6 treat it… Continue reading Thanks bletchley park fans we raised £££ for the huts!
As you know Bletchley Park is our charity for Shed week 2010 and the way I thought of helping them and the wonderful Huts ( Hut 6 was Hut of the year 2009) they are in a right state due to lack of funding but the Bletchley Park Trust are doing as much as possible… Continue reading Love Bletchley Park? support them- bid for unique items from @Sarahbeeny @manmademoon @shedworking for #shedweek
As you know Bletchley Park is our charity for Shed Week 2010 and we will be running a charity auction (in the run up to Shed Week 5th July 2010) with all the funds going to Bletchley Park, we have items from Sarah Beeny, Duncan Jones (of Moon), shed judge Alex and the god father… Continue reading Sheddies how about an authentic Bletchley Park Hut 6 Door Handle to open your shed?
We have shown the state of the Bletchley park huts before, but here are some shots of the inside of the huts… I thought the outsides were bad. These photos from the Bletchley park editor. [flickr]photo:4286407304[/flickr][flickr]photo:4286406650[/flickr][flickr]photo:4285664855[/flickr][flickr]photo:4286405036[/flickr][flickr]photo:4285663521[/flickr][flickr]photo:4286396092[/flickr][flickr]photo:4285612239[/flickr] of course Bletchley park is the charity of shed week, so look out for our charity auction in the… Continue reading You really need to help Bletchley park just look inside the huts #bpark
Some great news from Bletchley Park Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw will visit Bletchley Park on Thursday 25 March 2010 to announce the allocation of £250,000 DCMS funding for urgent repairs at the neglected WW2 Codebreaking Centre. The grant, which comes from the reallocation of under-spends elsewhere in the DCMS budget for 2009-2010, will allow the… Continue reading £250,000 Government Funding for Critical & Hut Repairs at Bletchley Park
I mentioned before that we would be getting some signed items to raise funds for Bletchley Park when I run an online auction on that ebay for Shed Week in July. Duncan Jones BAFTA award winning director and nice bloke has given us three signed copies of his wonderful film MOON to auction off for… Continue reading Moon’s Duncan Jones does his bit for Bletchley Park and Shed Week: How about you?
Great news…missed this yesterday lets hope this helps get the Huts sorted! The restoration of Bletchley Park, the centre of Britain’s code-breaking activities in the Second World War, is to be project-managed by one of the Prince of Wales’s charities – the Prince’s Regeneration Trust, it was announced today. The work will include restoring some… Continue reading Bletchley Park Huts restoration project-managed by Prince of Wales Trust
As you know, Bletchley Park is the charity for Shed Week 2010. During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom’s main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School. Ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted there, most importantly ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines.… Continue reading Do something for Bletchley park and win unique shed items during Shed Week