Enigmas and codes--Bletchley Park

Yesterday we visited Bletchley Park, the home of Allied code-breaking during WWII. At the peak of its activity, Bletchley Park code-breakers were intercepting 4,000 messages per day, and Churchill later said it was thanks to the operations here that we won the war.

workers fixing the enigma-breaking "bombe" machine

We saw some enigma machines and code-breaking machines and period stuff. Most of the mansion is now offices, but we got to see the still-authentic parts. Overall we thought it was interesting but could have been presented a little better. Maybe they were trying to be enigmatic...

There's a cute little post office at Bletchley Park.

Stained glass ceiling in one of the rooms.

Gavin definitely enjoyed playing on the grounds of Bletchley, including monster chess. 

I thought this wartime poster was clever.