Bletchley Park Trust needs £10m to resto re code-breaking site

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Bletchley Park Trust needs £10m to restore code-breaking site
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By James Macintyre

The Bletchley Park Trust plans to turn the historic site into an 
internationally-recognised visitor centre with restored buildings, an 
authentic 1940s atmosphere and gardens the public can enjoy free of 
charge.

But implementing the plan and saving the site, the dilapidated state of 
which was highlighted in The Independent this week, will cost £10m. That 
money would bring new life to the decaying park near Milton Keynes, where 
some of Britain's finest minds hastened the defeat of the Nazis with their 
code-breaking.

A key element of the plan is the restoration of all wartime buildings - 
from the badly-damaged decoders' wooden huts to the stable block - to 
regain their authentic 1940s style. Nothing will be demolished and there 
will be no new buildings. Fresh investment will be put into the education 
service, including in mathematics and the popular children's code-breaking 
programmes..../snip/


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