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David George 114/08/2017 18:31:23
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I went to Bletchley park and was amazed by the engineering in some of the exhibits here are a few pictures.

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Amazing place

David

Chris Evans 615/08/2017 09:50:25
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Having read many books on the goings on at Bletchley and Turing it is on my must visit one day list. Maybe as a section ride out with the bike club we all like similar things.

Neil Wyatt15/08/2017 10:23:23
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Agreed I must get there some time.

My daughter went to Portsmouth at the weekend, another museum on my bucket list, came back enthusing about HMS Warrior, Mary Rose, HMS Victory. Must be good if it has that effect on a teenage girl!

Adrian Giles15/08/2017 10:52:17
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+1 for Bletchley, brilliant place, went earlier this year. The engineering in those machines is beautiful, real works of art, the brains that designed those were certainly on top of the game! Must do Mary Rose again soon, as they have changed the way she is presented since we last went. Off to Southampton to the Solent Sky museum next week.

Mike Poole15/08/2017 11:05:29
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Time for another visit to BP, I visited soon after it opened and had a most enjoyable time, it always sticks in my memory that it was a BT training centre where the lads I did my college courses went, we summed up The BT lads job as "up poles and down holes" no doubt they had a suitable description for us.

Mike

Sandgrounder15/08/2017 11:25:56
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My wife and I had a stroke of luck when we went there some years ago, it was in September 2009 and we chose the weekend of the 6th & 7th solely because we got a cheap deal at the Milton Keynes Travelodge, when we arrived at Bletchley we found it was a special weekend for the 70th Anniversary of the start of WW2 and besides the usual superb displays in the huts there was a fashion show and a collection of Enigma machines from around the world.

Two memorable days

John

Howard Lewis15/08/2017 18:28:59
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The replica Bombe was made by members of the local M E Socy. (There used to be part of a showcase, showing the component parts that they had Made for each of the rotors) Obviously the members had masses more skill, and patience, than me, to make so very many high precision parts.

An absolutely fascinating place to visit. We don't visit often enough!

Howard

Ian S C16/08/2017 03:40:32
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An uncle of my father was one of the techniions at Bleechly Park during the war, I visited him when I was last in UK in 1984, what an interesting time I had, before that I knew very little of the existance of the place, and it's vast size. At the time he was CEO British Nuclear Fuels, and he took me on a tour of thier 1950's vintage computor at (?) Nutsford. near Cheshire, that was big enough, but you could probably do most of the work it did on your smart phone today.

Ian S C

KWIL16/08/2017 14:32:56
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+1 again. The Computer Museum is excellent, makes me realise just how far we have come in my (computing) lifetime.

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