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Bletchley Park
17 April - 17 April 2010
BLETCHLEY PARK
PROVISIONAL ITINERARY
| Saturday 17 April | |
| 8:00 | Depart Central London |
| 18:00 | Tour returns to London |
Tour Code BOGB02
This intriguing behind-the-scenes tour reveals how the British broke one of the greatest secrets of World War II: the brilliant German Enigma code.
Enigma was the backbone of German military and intelligence communications and was considered unbreakable. The code breakers were sworn to secrecy for decades until the story of Bletchley Park was finally released.
It was in Huts 3, 4, 6 and 8 of Bletchley Park that the highly effective Enigma decrypt teams worked. To speed up the code breaking process, the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing developed an idea originally proposed by Polish cryptanalysts. The result was the Bombe: an electro-mechanical machine that greatly reduced the odds, and thereby the time required, to break the daily-changing Enigma keys. This was arguably the world’s first working computer.
The code breakers were sworn to secrecy for decades until the story of Bletchley Park was finally released.
You'll also have free time to explore some of the other exhibitions, including the fascinating story of Bletchley Park post office and garages with a collection of vehicles from the 1930s.
Highlights include
- Guided tour of the main exhibits by Paula Kitching, an historian with a special interest in and knowledge of Bletchley Park
- Reconstruction of the Bombe, the machine that helped break the unbreakable code
- The Colossus, a reconstruction of the world’s first semi-programmable computer
- Evidence of the lives of the code breakers
COST
£49 per person
Full amount payable at time of booking.
All entrance fees included.
TRAVEL
Return travel by executive coach from Central London to Bletchley Park.
GUIDE
Tour led by experienced Guild of Battlefield Guide.