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A country house and grounds some 50 milesNorth of London, England, where highly secret work decipheringintercepted German military radio messages was carried outduring World War Two. Thousands of people were working thereat the end of the war, including a number of early computerpioneers such as Alan Turing.The nature and scale of the work has only emerged recently,with total secrecy having been observed by all the peopleinvolved. Throughout the war, Bletchley Park produced highlyimportant strategic and tactical intelligence used by theAllies, (Churchill's "golden eggs"), and it has been claimedthat the war in Europe was probably shortened by two years asa result.An exhibition of wartime code-breaking memorabilia, includingan entire working Colossus, restored by Tony Sale, can beseen at Bletchley Park on alternate weekends.The Computer Conservation Society (CCS), a specialist groupof the British Computer Society runs a museum on the sitethat includes a working Elliot mainframe computer and manyearly minicomputers and microcomputers. The CCS hope tohave substantial facilities for storage and restoration of oldartifacts, as well as archive, library and researchfacilities.Telephone: Bletchley Park Trust office +44 (908) 640 404(office hours and open weekends).