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E22 - A Very, Very Secret Place
May 2014
This month, we learn about the doomed German plans
to invade Britain in 1940 with Historian & founding
member of the Bletchley Park Trust, Peter Wescombe
as we join him in the Bletchley Park Archive.
We also take you to the launch of the biography of
one of Bletchley Park’s lesser known geniuses,
Gordon Welchman. Joel Greenberg has been reading up
on & researching Bletchley Park’s World War Two
history since the 1970s. He is a Volunteer Tour
Guide & works part time at Bletchley Park. His book,
Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra
Intelligence, was launched in the Mansion in the
presence of Welchman’s family, who formally handed
over artefacts and documents, some of which had been
in boxes in his son Nick’s loft for 25 years before
Joel started his research.
Get a taste of what’s to come at the Bletchley Park
Presents series of Sunday afternoon talks & hear
from three of the real women of Bletchley Park,
Jean Valentine, Ruth Bourne & Betty Webb in a short
interview with Bremont Watches founder Giles English.
Finally we bring you a Wren’s memories of the
absolute secrecy impressed upon her when she
arrived. Elizabeth Marshall, nee Tatham, who lives
in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, recalls “We were told
your family and your friends must not know.’ We sat
there absolutely agog, wondering what we had let
ourselves in for.”
Picture ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#ww2veteran, #Bremont, #mcfontaine
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May 2014
This month, we learn about the doomed German plans
to invade Britain in 1940 with Historian & founding
member of the Bletchley Park Trust, Peter Wescombe
as we join him in the Bletchley Park Archive.
We also take you to the launch of the biography of
one of Bletchley Park’s lesser known geniuses,
Gordon Welchman. Joel Greenberg has been reading up
on & researching Bletchley Park’s World War Two
history since the 1970s. He is a Volunteer Tour
Guide & works part time at Bletchley Park. His book,
Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra
Intelligence, was launched in the Mansion in the
presence of Welchman’s family, who formally handed
over artefacts and documents, some of which had been
in boxes in his son Nick’s loft for 25 years before
Joel started his research.
Get a taste of what’s to come at the Bletchley Park
Presents series of Sunday afternoon talks & hear
from three of the real women of Bletchley Park,
Jean Valentine, Ruth Bourne & Betty Webb in a short
interview with Bremont Watches founder Giles English.
Finally we bring you a Wren’s memories of the
absolute secrecy impressed upon her when she
arrived. Elizabeth Marshall, nee Tatham, who lives
in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, recalls “We were told
your family and your friends must not know.’ We sat
there absolutely agog, wondering what we had let
ourselves in for.”
Picture ©Bletchley Park Trust
#BPark, #BletchleyPark, #Enigma,
#ww2veteran, #Bremont, #mcfontaine
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