David George 1 | 14/08/2017 18:31:23 |
![]() 2110 forum posts 565 photos | I went to Bletchley park and was amazed by the engineering in some of the exhibits here are a few pictures.
Amazing place David |
Chris Evans 6 | 15/08/2017 09:50:25 |
![]() 2156 forum posts | 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 Wyatt | 15/08/2017 10:23:23 |
![]() 19226 forum posts 749 photos 86 articles | 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 Giles | 15/08/2017 10:52:17 |
![]() 70 forum posts 26 photos | +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 Poole | 15/08/2017 11:05:29 |
![]() 3676 forum posts 82 photos | 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 |
Sandgrounder | 15/08/2017 11:25:56 |
256 forum posts 6 photos | 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 Lewis | 15/08/2017 18:28:59 |
7227 forum posts 21 photos | 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 C | 16/08/2017 03:40:32 |
![]() 7468 forum posts 230 photos | 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 |
KWIL | 16/08/2017 14:32:56 |
3681 forum posts 70 photos | +1 again. The Computer Museum is excellent, makes me realise just how far we have come in my (computing) lifetime. |
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