Bletchley Park, the home of the Allied codebreaking operation in World War 2, is badly in need of repair:
The true Bletchley Park Story is more incredible than fiction. A desperate race against time, pitting Britain’s best brains against Hitler and his chief commanders. The WW2 codebreakers’ mission was to crack the German Enigma machine and decode other seemingly unbreakable messages. Against them? Odds of 158 million million million. Their reward? ‘Ultra’ Intelligence that saved Allied convoys carrying essential supplies from U Boat wolfpacks on the prowl, and played a major part in the North African and other military campaigns. So effective was Bletchley Park that the decoded messages sometimes reached the Allies before the enemy Generals.
The astonishing achievements of the codebreakers are believed to have shortened the war by two years saving countless lives.
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But now is the time to act to help save Bletchley Park and the Trust are currently in talks with the Heritage Lottery Fund and other potential funders. Some of its remaining buildings, where the most important work of the twentieth century took place, are in urgent need of repair. The iconic Victorian Mansion requires in the region of £1,000,000 for repairs to the roof and some of the symbolic Codebreaking Huts are in a desperate state of decay.
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[Via Bruce Schneier]
- The link from that page to the Charities Aid Foundation web site doesn't take you directly to the page for the Bletchely Park Trust: for some reason, the CAF site requires you to search for charities. Searching for 'Bletchley Park' should get you to the page with the Donate button.