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Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 48

The Bombe and Colossus rebuilds are both at Bletchley Park, housed in the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) which is located in Block H, a building constructed to house the Colossus machines. TNMOC is outside the Bletchley Park "heritage attraction" which consists of the original wooden huts, the mansion and other buildings with exhibitions on the code breaking and associated intelligence work done during the war. Finding ways to use the information gathered from the intercepted messages without the enemy realising where that information came from was a major component of the activities.

Comment Re:It deserves to die (Score 1) 48

TNMOC hasn't moved, it is still in the grounds of what remains of the Bletchley Park estate. Bletchley Park Trust erected a fence to keep their visitors inside their "pay zone" AKA Enigma Land. The Colossus rebuild remains in the same place it was constructed, Block H, built in 1944 to house six Colossus machines. TNMOC is a tenant of Bletchley Park Trust and pays a substantial sum in rent. The Turing/Welchman Bombe did move from Bletchley Park Trust to TNMOC 2 years ago. The Bombe is owned by a separate charitable trust who were unable to agree on the future of the machine within the Bletchley Park Trust's plans, so it was moved to a new gallery within Block H. I don't believe Bletchley Park deserves to die, but there have been some very poor decisions made in recent years.

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