Codebreaker's £1m will to help house people in Cumbria
Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]> Fri, 4 Mar 2011 14:48:54 +0000
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28 February 2011 Codebreaker's £1m will to help house people in Cumbria ------------------------------------------------------- Money left in a former codebreaker's will is to be used to help house people in Cumbria. During World War II Joan Nicholson served at Bletchley Park, where operators were responsible for cracking the German Enigma code. Later in life she moved to a cottage in Grasmere, and when she died last May at the age of 87 her entire £1m estate went to the Lakeland Housing Trust. The company acquires, modernises and lets out homes at affordable rents. Miss Nicholson's official war records described her as a Foreign Office linguist, but her French and German skills were seized on by naval intelligence. Staff at Bletchley Park were banned under the Official Secrets Act from disclosing any information about their military service until the 1970s. Miss Nicholson grew up in Victoria Park, Manchester, and attended Withington Girls' School...../snip/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12595173 http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51453000/jpg/_51453706_archivejoannicholson.jpg