Codes and Cipher Exhibition at Station Y near Loughborough]

I believe this might be of interest to UK members within reach
Apologies for cross-posting. BoB Waixel.


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Subject: 	[subbrit] Codes and Cipher Exhibition at Station Y near 
Loughborough
Date: 	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:17:40 +0100
From: 	Duncan Hawkins <[email protected]>
To: 	[email protected]



 This exhibition opened yesterday and runs until Friday at the former Y
station - Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse near Loughborough,
Leicestershire.

John Alexander (Bletchley Park 'Enigma & Friends') and Ian Foulkes(Royal
Signals Museum Blandford Forum) Announce 'Codes!' at Beaumanor Hall
Woodhouse. A Five Day Exhibition of Radio Interception Equipment, Codes and
Cypher Systems and Machines AT ... Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse,
Leicestershire. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, 26 March - Friday 30 March 2007.

John Alexander is a Leicester-based collector of code and cipher equipment.
Ian Foulkes is an Assistant Curator of the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford
Camp, Blandford Forum, Dorset.

For five days only, the exhibition is open to the general public and at no
cost.

"Codes' " is intended to bring the history of Beaumanor, the 'Y' service,
the Royal Signals Reg. and the Codebreakers of Bletchley Park to a wider
audience .. and with some rarely seen equipment on show.

With this compact exhibition space, the visitor can become acquainted with
WWII radio receivers as used at Beaumanor, with some British code and cypher
systems, the famous German Enigma machine and others- British, American,
European, Scandinavian and Russian.

Were banks of Radio Receivers based at Beaumanor (and elsewhere) during
WWII? Yes, and important they were too. Ian will bring some of these 'sets'
along to see.

A tactical cypher machine used by the Americans during WWII and later? The
M209 - one of John's will be available.

What was the British 'Slidex'? Ian will describe the use of this British
battlefield cypher system from WWII and later.

Is Mrs Alexander jealous of "NOREEN'? Not really, NOREEN is really a British
cypher system originally used in some British embassies abroad.

A high level cypher machine used by the Russians during the Cold War? One
such system is the M125 'Fialka', a 'super-Enigma'. Come and see it at
Beaumanor.

MORE ...

This is a not-for-profit exhibition intended to take wartime radio intercept
matters, code and cypher systems out to a wider audience and in the
beautiful surroundings of Beaumanor Hall.

We do of course hope that visitors will want to learn more by visiting
Beaumanor Hall, Bletchley Park and The Royal Signals Museum at Blandford
Camp.
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