Bletchley
Park
Bletchley
Park was the home of the secret Government Code and Cypher
School. This was the centre of British code-breaking during
the war.
The code-breakers
were specially chosen from among the cleverest people in the country.
Some were brilliant mathematicians or linguists.
By 1944 they
had a big team to help them. Seven thousand men and women worked
in shifts round the clock in small wooden or concrete buildings
known as 'Huts'. Many did repetitive but important jobs like filing
or operating the code-breaking machines.
They
were not allowed to tell anyone - not even their family
or friends - about their work.
| On the right
is Alan Turing, a Cambridge mathematician and code-breaker
who helped to invent one of the world's first computers at
Bletchley Park. |
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