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Story: Bletchley Park faces bleak future

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Saving Bletchley Park is crucial

What was achieved there is recognised to be of fundamental importance to both winning the war (Churchill visited to say 'thank you' to them) and the development of the computer. Maybe Bill Gates doesn't want to support this museum because it underlines where electronic computing started i.e. here, not the U.S.

The place was nearly concreted over 40 years ago when the development of Milton Keynes New Town (as it then was) began. The achievements of all at Bletchley Park were kept a secret all through the cold war. It's a miracle that it survived all that, as well as the war itself.

Surely we're not going to give up on it all now. I've visited twice and have been absolutely enthralled by the true stories brought to life by the excellent guides and, in particular, Tony Sale (an engaging and enhusiastic real-life 'Q' who hs rebuilt the original Colossus.

I would urge you all to go and have a look and then join in the campaign to save what is surely a monument to what Britain was able to achieve when really up against it. We can still learn from it now - don't let it close!

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