With Bletchley Park and Alan Turing so much in the news lately, and of course Hut 6 won the Hut category of this years Shed of the Year 2009 competition. So its timely to remind people that its not funded by the government in anyway and needs your support to save such a big part… Continue reading Support Hut 6 and Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park
Sign the petition to save Bletchley Park
Our friends over at Bletchley Park want your help. As has been reported elsewhere, Bletchley Park “have two to three more years of survival”. The Bletchley Park Trust receives no external funding. It has been deemed ineligible for funding by the National Lottery, and turned down by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Please do… Continue reading Sign the petition to save Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park Turing Bombe machine wins award
Those sheddies over at Bletchley Park have won an award “Engineering Heritage Award” heres the info. War heroes will be reunited with the engineering masterpiece that played a crucial part in cracking the Nazi Enigma codes and ultimately saved the lives of thousands. They will watch the Bombe machine at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, receive… Continue reading Bletchley Park Turing Bombe machine wins award
Vote for Bletchley park as the Building of Britain award
This is an old post the vote no longer works you may be looking for this post. The ultimate Shed of the year vote – Which is the best? Our friends over at bletchley park are up for The Wickes “The Building Britain’s Most Proud Of” They are up against such The Cavern, Liverpool, Millennium… Continue reading Vote for Bletchley park as the Building of Britain award
Just Sheds : Save Bletchley Park Huts
Alex and everyone else has mentioned this recently and we even mentioned it before… anyway we know have the famous huts on readersheds.co.uk Hut 6, scene of some of the most profoundly important work of the twentieth century, the top secret breaking of German Army and Air Force Enigma ciphers by the brilliant Bletchley Park… Continue reading Just Sheds : Save Bletchley Park Huts
Grant to save Bletchley Park sheds?
The shed friendly Timesonline reports Bletchley Park, the top-secret code-breaking centre which helped Britain win the Second World War, is to receive a “substantial” grant from the government’s historic monuments commission to save it from dereliction. However, the future of the wooden huts where the Engima codes were cracked is still in doubt. They have… Continue reading Grant to save Bletchley Park sheds?
Bletchley Huts a National Disgrace
The BBC yesterday carried the story of a group of almost a hundred academics who are so outraged by the state of dereliction of the Bletchley Park huts that they have written to the Times to call for Bletchley Park to receive state funding. Bletchley Park was the war-time home of Alan Turing and his… Continue reading Bletchley Huts a National Disgrace