Bletchley Park - Save Britain's code of honour

The leading article in the Wednesday edition of the UK Independant newspaper highlighted the plight of Bletchley Park.

The article says:

One of the greatest of all the wartime stories of dedication and self sacrifice was played out in what are now the neglected, rotting buildings of Bletchley Park.

In these rundown, weed-infested old huts, teams of code breakers, linguists, typists and file clerks worked in fantastically difficult and demanding conditions to decode, record and analyse thousands upon thousands of radio messages exchanged by enemy personnel.

Their achievements saved countless lives, and may have shortened the war by two to three years.

Read the full article at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-save-britains-code-of-honour-902847.html

Related URLs

'Neglect' of Bletchley Park condemned
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2008/bletchley_park_neglect.htm

Code centre 'in financial crisis' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/7426310.stm

Bletchley Park Sells its Broken Roof Slates to Raise Funds
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/news/docview.rhtm/523520

For further info see their main site:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

Petition lobbying the Prime Minister to act to help preserve Bletchley Park - please go to http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/

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