This is a place with a hugely important past, incredible to think that over 7,500 people worked here in complete secrecy for several years. I am local to BP and have been many times, I met a 96yr old lady named Ruth who was a ‘signals girl’ at BP during the war. They were responsible for collating the intercepted (but encrypted) communications and then would send them to the hut next door for processing / decryption. She had zero idea what went on in the other huts until the 1970s when the first stories began to appear publicly.
For those who are interested in such things they have the National Museum of Computing there where they have a reconstructed Collosus machine in fully functional condition.
Huge shout out to TMNOC - of which I am a personal fan, has a very important place in my personal history.
They also now have the Bombe rebuild, which is incredible as well as the Collosus and Tunny machines - all fully operational. So, if you want to see the machines then do visit TNMOC.
Due to sadly idiotic BP management policy it’s a separate musuem on the BP site - a fact which is not widely advertised and they sadly suffer because of this. It’s also really good value (you can tell I’m a fan ) and very worthy of a visit.
Very interesting place. I have been a couple of times after reading the work done in hut 6 by the then unrecognised people. The work done at BP shortened the war by at least 2 years.The British nation owe so much to those unsung people who worked at BP all those years ago. The national computing museum is very interesting, I could have spent 2 days there quite easily.
They may have been many clever brains hypothesing an electronic brain that could crack German codes but without the silly man from the post office that’s all they would be
) and very worthy of a visit.