Our final destination was Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of the World War Two Codebreakers.
My Dad, outside Hut 8, the code-breaking hut where Alan Turing and others worked on breaking the German Naval Enigma messages
Something I didn't expect to learn about was the role that homing pigeons played in WW2. We read and heard of many stories where homing pigeons flew messages from the frontline to bases throughout the UK, in the process saving thousands of lives.
Always like a bit of dressing up. One of things I liked about Bletchley where all the videos and interactive stuff.
For those of you who have seen the film 'The Imitation Game', one of the people I wanted to learn more about was Alan Turing. An English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
I find it incredibly sad, and so wrong, that after all his service to his country in a time of crisis that he was treated so appallingly in the post war years because of his personal lifestyle.
This amazing statue is one of the most beautiful and fascinating things I have ever seen. It is made from thousands of large and small pieces of slate and the detail in utterly incredible.
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