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Bletchley Park

52.00°N 0.74°W2 titles

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What happened here

In August 1939 Britain's Government Code and Cypher School moved to this Buckinghamshire estate. Building on Polish work, Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman designed the electromechanical bombe, which from 1940 broke German Enigma settings daily; Hut 8 attacked the naval traffic vital to the Atlantic convoys. By 1945 nearly 10,000 people worked there, and the Colossus computers were cracking Hitler's high-level Lorenz cipher.

Films and series set in Bletchley Park

  1. Enigma

    2001 · Film

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      Jericho races to break the new U-boat code while secretly investigating the stolen intercepts hidden by his missing lover.

  2. The Imitation Game

    2014 · Film

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      Turing clashes with his commander and colleagues as he builds his codebreaking machine, while ships keep sinking in the Atlantic.

Events at Bletchley Park

  1. Technology

    First Bombe at Bletchley Park

    Building on Polish breakthroughs, Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman designed an electromechanical machine to find the daily Enigma settings, and the first was installed at Bletchley Park. The intelligence it produced, known as Ultra, helped the Allies in almost every theatre.

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