September 2014
As well as marking the 75th anniversary of the
Government Code and Cypher School getting its
vital war work underway, this year’s annual
Veterans’ Reunion will give many their first chance
to see how Bletchley Park has been transformed.
2014 is a landmark year for the Bletchley Park
Trust, marking not only 75 years since the
Codebreakers got cracking on the task of
breaking enemy codes and ciphers, but also
the completion of a much-needed £8 million
restoration project, supported by the Heritage
Lottery Fund.
At this year’s Veterans’ Reunion, many former
workers of the Government Code and Cypher
School will see the new Block C Visitor Centre,
lovingly restored Codebreaking Huts 3 and 6 and
the reinstated landscaped parkland for the first time.
Visitors too can experience the World War Two
atmosphere and feel what it was like for the
thousands of men and women whose work at
Bletchley Park and its outstations helped shorten
the war, saving countless lives. On Sunday the 7th
of September, they will have the rare opportunity
to walk among some of those extraordinary men
and women.
By the time the Codebreakers arrived at Bletchley
Park in 1939, a small number of Huts had already
been built among the existing buildings on this
Victorian country estate. The first delegation,
codenamed Captain Ridley’s Shooting Party, had
spent around a month setting up communications
on the site in 1938.
Picture: ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #Bletchleypark, #ww2veteran, #enigma
