{"id":1243,"date":"2005-10-03T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/10\/bletchley_park\/"},"modified":"2005-10-03T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T12:37:50","slug":"bletchley_park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/bletchley_park\/","title":{"rendered":"Bletchley Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32306155@N00\/48971861\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/28\/48971861_be8fbfb166.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" width=350 \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32306155@N00\/48971861\/\">The Mansion<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/32306155@N00\/\">adambowie<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably been ten years since I last visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bletchleypark.org.uk\/\">Bletchley Park<\/a>, so it was high time for another visit. They&#8217;ve done quite a lot to the site in the meantime. Last time I went, it was only open on alternate weekends over the summer. Now it&#8217;s open everyday except Christmas. Last time I visited the site also bore reminders of a more recent previous existance as a BT training area. Now it&#8217;s home to whole host of different societies and little museums, along with its main function as the home of the Enigma decryption exhibit and historical computers &#8211; the National Codes Centre.<br \/>\nAs well as the fascinating collection of Enigma machines and replicas and rebuilds of the devices invented to solve them, there&#8217;s a host of other exhibits. For example, a Churchill collection, a film projection collection (I watched a couple of fascinating 1960s newsreels), a diplomatic wireless collection (where one of the other visitors recognised one of the machines from his time in Germany) and even a railway collection.<br \/>\nOutside a building where they&#8217;re painstakingly rebuilding Turing&#8217;s Colussus there sits, somewhat mournfully, a replica of the top of a German U-Boat which I belive was used in the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0157583\/\">Enigma<\/a>. It sits atop a lorry trailer, and was obviously used for closeups alongside minitures of CGI in the film.<br \/>\nOverall, a fascinating experience. And they provide those handsets which give you more information than you could possibly need as you wander around the exhibition.<br \/>\nSee a Flickr slideshow of some of my photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32306155@N00\/sets\/1063834\/show\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mansion, originally uploaded by adambowie. It&#8217;s probably been ten years since I last visited Bletchley Park, so it was high time for another visit. They&#8217;ve done quite a lot to the site in the meantime. Last time I went, it was only open on alternate weekends over the summer. Now it&#8217;s open everyday except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}