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[Alan Burkitt-Gray]

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	Alec M wrote: 
	Item on the "Today" programme on Radio4 just before 9am this
morning,
	saying that Bletchley Park has been "saved for the nation", .....
Does anyone have any more information?


Have a look at  http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ which is the website of the
Bletchley Park Trust.
Different bits of the site have been owned by BT and the Govt agency which
owns its non-military lands. Both, as far as I recall, wanted to sell it off
for housing - BT obviously wants to increase its minute profits and the
agency has no option but to maximise return under whatever rules are set for
it.
I think some of the site is still to be used for development but there's
some deal to restore the main house and some of the huts and turn them into
a museum (or what the radio programme I heard called a theme park) on
computing. 
Has GCHQ still got a Colossus or a Bombe they can let the museum have, I
wonder? They've got at least one Enigma machine but they claim they are ten
a penny, really.

Alan

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