Save Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park is a run down little country estate in Buckinghamshire. Not particularly beautiful, large or distinguished in the way many British country estates are. But in terms of history it might be the single most important patch of land in Britain.
Alan Turing laid down many of the foundations of modern computing at Bletchley Park and, along with many others, cracked Nazi & Nipponese cyphers which enabled us to win WWII. For a period in the 1940s the axis of history turned at Station X, as it was known then.
And it’s falling to pieces.
Please help ensure this incredibly important site doesn’t crumble altogether. If you’re a British citizen please sign the petition to the Prime Minister. If you’re not please donate or help spread the word. Without Bletchley Park you might not be reading this from a screen, and you’d very likely be saluting a Fuhrer.It’s that important. Help if you can.
Cheers,
Daniel Mcskelly
brewgin 1569 days ago
I just made a donation because you’re sexy. ;D
Although I do miss pint sized drinks. They’re British too.
Without Bletchley we may not have had pint sized drinks today.
Give whatever you can for the love of pint sized beverages!
Jim McNelis 1569 days ago
http://ditoweb.comI remember this estate being mentioned in history class.
Joff 1569 days ago
I once drove through Bletchley and decided to visit Bletchley park… couldn’t find it, no road signs, nothing.
I can only guess that someone in Bucks still thinks the war is on and has removed all signs to foil any nazzies.
Maurice 1569 days ago
actulay they built the first colossi at Dollis Hil BTW trivia fact BP was the only BT Site where you coudl ride to work and stable your horse jusr next to the shed where they had put the first Bombes
http://twitter.com/domfosnz/statuses/1177186186 1569 days ago
Save Bletchley Park: http://tinyurl.com/bdfos9
Sue Black 1569 days ago
http://www.savingbletchleypark.orgDo follow me on Twitter for updates on progress with the campaign: @Dr_Black and search term #bpark
Many thanks
Sue
Darren Moloney 1568 days ago
http://www.allthingsweb.co.ukIf we don’t remember our past we’re doomed to make the same mistakes…. Bletchley Park should be an important part of our heritage… its a disgrace if it is not kept in order.
ck 1568 days ago
http://www.simply-chic.netthank you david, this is clearly very importnat.
for those that dont know, the reason we have the so called special relationship with the usa is because of what happend at bletchly park.
once Alan turing, the same guy who invented the turing test (how to tell a human from a computer eg modern day captchas) had cracked enigma, the UK gave this intelligence to the US.
no other country including the usa would ever do this, and this cermented the relationship. not too mention that the cyptoanalysis skills that us British have.
like David refers to, had it not been for bletchly park, then we may have lost the war; shipping would have been battered in the atlantic, and clearly the usa would not have cracked the japanese codes.
SUPPORT THIS + SAVE BLETCHLY PARK.
chris 1564 days ago
Serious? That place is legend… Shame on the UK govt. I visited the place as a kid on a school trip and was awestruck by the history of the place. Chris, Cape Town, South Africa
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Darren Poulson 1560 days ago
http://www.22balmoralroad.net/This place definately needs saving. I went a year or so ago and found it facinating. Since then the computer museum has opened which I was lucky enough to get a private tour round as they were building it. Quite bizarre to see computers that I have (and still do) look after being in a museum.
Also there are other great exhibits such as the massive private Churchill collection and a nice cinema museum.
If you can spare some money, please donate!
http://www.bletchleypark.co.uk/content/paypal-donate.rhtm
Julie 1303 days ago
http://SaveBletchleyPark.co.ukI have been going to the Bletchey park for a long time now and I’ve got really bad kidnease and that Bletchley park keeps me going so Bletchley will still stay there.
From a little girl.