Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing

Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by _b8r0 on Friday August 05, 2011 @03:38PM (#2851400)

I've been to Bletchley Park about 3 times now. It is staggeringly amazing what went on there, when you think of the effort those people went through and their contribution to the war. It must have been incredibly painful to let people die rather than run the risk of the Germans knowing that the codes were broken.

If you ever come to the UK from abroad, you can get a train from Euston Station (zone 1 on the underground) to Milton Keynes and from there head to Bletchley Park. It's well worth a day trip for the serious geek/hacker type.

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by defeated on Friday August 05, 2011 @04:23PM (#2851602)

I just did this about a month ago, and it couldn't be easier to get from London to Bletchley Park, it's literally right up the road from the Milton Keynes train station, maybe a two minute walk.

Getting to Down House (Darwin's House) from London, on the other hand, while totally worthwhile... what a hassle!

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by timthorn on Friday August 05, 2011 @06:05PM (#2851982)

I think you mean the Bletchley rail station - MK Central is some miles away.

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Re:Restoring Bletchley Park: birthplace of modern computing by defeated on Saturday August 06, 2011 @11:24AM (#2854035)

Yep, sorry about that, it was the MK line, stopped at Bletchley :).

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