Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Just before the Second World War started, the Government Code and Cipher School needed a safe, secret place away from London, so they relocated to Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.

Simple huts were built on the grounds and it was in Hut 8 that mathematician Alan Turing’s Bombe machine played a key role in cracking the Enigma code.

The incredible efforts of thousands of people at Bletchley, 3/4 of them women, helped shorten the war by an estimated 2 to 4 years, saving countless lives.