Re: Codes and Cipher Exhibition at Station Y near Loughborough]

Do you know the extent of this exhibition and does it extend on information 
available at BP please?  I don't want to go all the way to Beaumanor Hall 
for a small exhibition (both in quantity and quality).

Thanks.

Bill Ridgeway

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From: "Robert (Bob) Waixel" <[email protected]>
To: <BLETCHLEYPARK-0lvw86wZMd/[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: [BPARK] 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.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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