Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Bletchley Park
     
         A country house and grounds some 50 miles
        North of London, England, where highly secret work deciphering
        intercepted German military radio messages was carried out
        during World War Two.  Thousands of people were working there
        at the end of the war, including a number of early computer
        pioneers such as {Alan Turing}.
     
        The nature and scale of the work has only emerged recently,
        with total secrecy having been observed by all the people
        involved.  Throughout the war, Bletchley Park produced highly
        important strategic and tactical intelligence used by the
        Allies, (Churchill's "golden eggs"), and it has been claimed
        that the war in Europe was probably shortened by two years as
        a result.
     
        An exhibition of wartime code-breaking memorabilia, including
        an entire working {Colossus}, restored by Tony Sale, can be
        seen at Bletchley Park on alternate weekends.
     
        The {Computer Conservation Society} (CCS), a specialist group
        of the {British Computer Society} runs a museum on the site
        that includes a working {Elliot} {mainframe} computer and many
        early {minicomputers} and {microcomputers}.  The CCS hope to
        have substantial facilities for storage and restoration of old
        artifacts, as well as archive, library and research
        facilities.
     
        Telephone: Bletchley Park Trust office +44 (908) 640 404
        (office hours and open weekends).
     
        (1998-12-18)