Google extends support for Bletchley Park

Monday, 08 August 2011 00:00

Google extends support for Bletchley Park
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Written by Sue Gee   

Google has launched a fundraising campaign to restore buildings that 
played a pivotal role in computing history and its Street View Trike 
visited the site last week to capture the "before" view.

Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire England was the secret location for 
Britain's code decryption team, who intercepted and decoded messages from 
enemy forces during the Second World War.

Last year Google donated $100,000 to a fund that enabled Bletchly Park 
Trust to secure a collection of Alan's Turing papers and now has initiated 
a campaign to raise £2 million need for a major restoration 
project...../snip/


http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/2860-google-fundraising-for-bletchley-park.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/restoring-bletchley-park-birthplace-of.html