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Bletchley Park 1940s events, July and September 2019. Both excellent, combined and individually.
Many reenactors, people in 1940s attire, vintage stalls, singers, dancing, vehicles and of course the incredible historical story of Bletchley Park, home of the code breakers.
A place of intrigue, mind crunching information, a truly fascinating place to visit.
Another visit to Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. This amazing sculpture of Alan Turing by Stephen Kettle is built from half a million pieces of Welsh slate.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
The key codebreakers were Alan Turing (Mathematician), Dilly Knox (British cryptographer), John Tiltman (British officer), Max Newman (Mathematician), Bill Tutte (Mathematician). In all there over 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, Government Code and Cypher School.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) was a kind of high level master decoder at Bletchley Park during WW2. Working at decoding German ENIGMA messages. Thus creating one of Churchill 's secret assets: the Ultra information as he named it.
Alan Turing was gay and his case was helpful in turning around public opinion and the law towards a milder attitude about human sexual orientation.
Still, it must be mentioned he himself has suffered greatly under the discriminating, punishing mentality of the time.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Bletchley Park 1940s events, July and September 2019. Both excellent, combined and individually.
Many reenactors, people in 1940s attire, vintage stalls, singers, dancing, vehicles and of course the incredible historical story of Bletchley Park, home of the code breakers.
A place of intrigue, mind crunching information, a truly fascinating place to visit.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
The key codebreakers were Alan Turing (Mathematician), Dilly Knox (British cryptographer), John Tiltman (British officer), Max Newman (Mathematician), Bill Tutte (Mathematician). In all there over 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, Government Code and Cypher School.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
This is a detail shot of the inside of a reconstructed Bombe enigma cracking machine in Bletchley Park. I decide to colourise the red wires to keep their contrast in the original scene.
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The bombe was an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
In Sackville Gardens a statue of Alan Turing depicts the late mathematician sitting on a bench. Located a short distance from Alan's Manchester University office, the bench arrangement allows visitors to sit alongside Alan and enjoy a shady oasis in the city centre.
I wonder when will the Bank of England issue new banknotes in Charles III's image?
I can't explain it with any good reason, but I have a habit of always keeping some cash in U.S. Dollar (USD), British Pound (GBP) and Euro (EUR), in addition to my home currency of Canadian Dollar (CAD) of course. I went to get some Pound Sterling the other day as the British Pound is at a multi-decade low against the USD and CAD.
At the bank, the teller told me that the paper version of the British Pound will cease being legal tender as of 30th September 2022, so she wanted to give me only polymer banknotes so that my purchase would not become useless in less than a month. But when I saw that the old paper banknotes are in very fine (though not mint) conditions, I actually asked her to sell me £100 in the old paper notes for my collection. The rest of the purchase I did get the new polymer banknotes.
The soon-to-be-withdrawn £50 paper banknote features the entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and the engineer James Watt and an image of the Soho Manufactory in the background - a factory used mainly to build machinery. The design was taken from a drawing produced in 1781. The steam engine design at the front of the note was taken from the Whitbread Engine, built in 1785 by the Boulton & Watt company.
The new £50 polymer banknote features a portrait of Mr. Alan Turing, who conceived modern computing and played a crucial part in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Mr. Turing was gay and was convicted in 1952 of gross indecency for his relationship with a man. He committed suicide in 1954, aged only 41.
The Queen officially pronounced Mr. Turing pardoned in August 2014 after several years of petitioning by prominent figures in society.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Bletchley Park, in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was the central site of the United Kingdom's Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which during the Second World War regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers. The official historian of World War II British Intelligence has written that the "Ultra" intelligence produced at Bletchley shortened the war by two to four years, and that without it the outcome of the war would have been uncertain. The site is now an educational and historical attraction memorialising and celebrating those accomplishments.
1939 Austin Ambulance. RC 6895
Seen at Bletchley Park Summer 1940s Vintage Weekend.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
The key codebreakers were Alan Turing (Mathematician), Dilly Knox (British cryptographer), John Tiltman (British officer), Max Newman (Mathematician), Bill Tutte (Mathematician). In all there over 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, Government Code and Cypher School.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
The key codebreakers were Alan Turing (Mathematician), Dilly Knox (British cryptographer), John Tiltman (British officer), Max Newman (Mathematician), Bill Tutte (Mathematician). In all there were over 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, Government Code and Cypher School.
his mother had this published at her own expense in 1959. This copy was later handed down to her granddaughter Shuna
1947 Talbot Sunbeam. FLR 586
Seen at Bletchley Park Summer 1940s Vintage Weekend.
The home of British codebreaking and a birthplace of modern information technology. It played a major role in World War Two, producing secret intelligence which had a direct and profound influence on the outcome of the conflict.
The key codebreakers were Alan Turing (Mathematician), Dilly Knox (British cryptographer), John Tiltman (British officer), Max Newman (Mathematician), Bill Tutte (Mathematician). In all there over 10,000 people worked at Bletchley Park, Government Code and Cypher School.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Aquesta maquina xifradora alemana, la Lorenz SZ-42, molt més complicada però amb menys fama que la Enigma, era emprada per les comunicacions més importants, entre Hitler i els seus comandaments d'exèrcits. En teoria, era quasi imposible de 'petar', però els anglesos ho feren possible, i de pasada inventaren els ordinadors! Aquests rotors que es veuen, dotze en total, produien lletres semi-aleatories que “ocultaven” les lletres del text original. Mireu els enllaços que us passo per compendre el funcionament d’aquesta complexa peça d’enginyeria.
Bletchley Park és un dels llocs més fascinants de la historia del segle XX. Aquí, durant la II Guerra Mundial i buscant la manera de desxifrar els codis militars alemanys, en sorgí la informatica i els ordinadors.
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ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park
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This electromechanical cypher machine, the Lorenz SZ-42, was used by Hitler and his generals for the most important messages. It is much more complex and difficult to crack than the much more famous Enigma machine, but even this one was in the end broken by the people in Bletchley Park. And as a side-product, they invented the computers! Look at my picture of the Colossus for more info. Lorenz twelve rotors produced a pair of pseudo-random characters that masked the plain text character introduced into the machine.
Bletchley Park is one of the most amazing historical places related to the XX Century in general and to WWII in particular. Here, during the colossal effort to crack the german military codes, computers and computing science were born (or at least had their main intial development).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=69uSSXzlmMY&feature=related
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenz_cipher
www.jproc.ca/crypto/tunny.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park
www.bletchleypark.org/content/museum.rhtm
For an impresive virtual visit, take a look to these videos:
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
This portrait of Alan Turing was generated by artificial intelligence by a paragraph long prompt. It is in Bletchley Park where he worked on code breaking during World War II, significantly contributing to the defeat of Hitler's Nazi Germany. He is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science.
Alan Turing Memorial, Sackville Park, Manchester
I've wanted to visit this memorial for many years but never made the trek to this part of town, so yesterday was that day to put things right. I must say at this point, that I don't think this is one of the best bronze sculptures I've seen but I'm glad that it's there. For me Alan Turing, had he lived beyond his untimely death in 1954 could have been the second Einstein, such was his brilliance and influence on modern computing as we know it today. A fact that some of the "big" computing companies have not really acknowledged in my humble opinion and I'm not taking purely about Apple, for the connection with their logo is an urban myth by all accounts reading the plagues next to this memorial.
What moved me about the scene yesterday was all the floral tributes and the number of overseas tourists and local tours stopping off to discuss the man's work. I even listened to a running/tour party and I do mean running group. I've taken the usual shots with all the flowers, but I don't like to interfere with other peoples tributes, after all, they're taken the time to visit and spent good money doing so. He clearly means a lot to people from all walks of life. I bet every mathematics and computer science student studying here in Manchester has visited at some point during their course time.
I've tried to capture a different viewpoint just focusing on the apple and use the light from the street as an ideas/light bulb metaphor... hope you like.
Bletchley Park 1940s events, July and September 2019. Both excellent, combined and individually.
Many reenactors, people in 1940s attire, vintage stalls, singers, dancing, vehicles and of course the incredible historical story of Bletchley Park, home of the code breakers.
A place of intrigue, mind crunching information, a truly fascinating place to visit.
Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
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Bletchley Park. Hut 11A. The Bombe Breakthrough.
A permanent exhibition that tells the story of the Bombe machines in the actual building that housed the machines which broke Enigma.
The Bombe Breakthrough explains in detail the challenges posed by Enigma and explores how Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and others devised a machine to help solve it. Using the museum’s Oral History archive and historic objects, it also considers how this contribution to the success of Allied signals intelligence had a significant impact on the course of WW2.
Bletchley Park, Home of the Codebreakers, is one of the cornerstones of British History during WWII. Its story being told the world over through the life and death, of Alan Turing (Mathematician and computer scientist). The most recognised films, Enigma (2001) and The Imitation Game (2014). I found Bletchley Park to be so interesting and fascinating. The more you learn, the more you want to discover. It's one of those places where you just have to visit to get a sense of what was going on in secrecy, during wartimes.
Hut 11A at Bletchley Park. Grade II Listed Building.
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Large Victorian mansion in England with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.
The Mansion. Bletchley Park.
Mission control for WWII code breaking with radio & computing museums.
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Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, put on its customary 1940s weekend and didn't disappoint. Such a fantastic venue, home of the codebreakers. There were re-enactors, vintage vehicles, dancing and so much more that makes it so memorable for everyone.
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Bletchley Park 1940s events, July and September 2019. Both excellent, combined and individually.
Many reenactors, people in 1940s attire, vintage stalls, singers, dancing, vehicles and of course the incredible historical story of Bletchley Park, home of the code breakers.
A place of intrigue, mind crunching information, a truly fascinating place to visit.