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Nice Site,

I have family who live in Newton Longville. Last year I visited and I wandered over the runway at Wing Airfield. There is not much left.

My grandfather worked at Bletchley Park during the war but I don't have much of an idea of what he did there. Everything was secret there. If somebody asked you directions for example "where's hut 19?" you wouldn't tell. If he didn't know, he wasn't supposed to know.

The onsite display at Bletchley is open to visitors. There is a good display on Winston Churchill with all sorts of memorabilia about him in the main building, while the displays of enigma machines (I was surprised by how many they have) and the various code breaking techniques are well displayed in smaller buildings. It is well worth a visit. The return fare from London is about 12 pounds.

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If dogs don't go to heaven, I'd like to go where they go.

At its peak there were around 10’000 working at Bletchley and virtually everything, including the Colossus computer, was destroyed after the war on Churchill’s order, lest things fell into the hands of the Soviets.

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Hi Everyone, just thought I'd ease myself into the Forum with an easy 1st posting

Bletchley Park: A really good day out, especially if it's sunny, as you can have a picnic by the small lake.
It's not very well signposted, actually I think there is only one sign in Bletchley pointing to it!
The Churchill Exhibition is fantastic, with some items I wouldn't mind in my collection.

And if you go to Milton Keynes looking for it, you'll be lost! Bletchley (like Wolverton, where I live) is an old town on the edge of the new town of Milton Keynes, so don't get confused!

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In memory of my great uncle, 5833402 Private Percy Bradbury, 5th Bn Suffolk Regiment. Captured at Singapore and died in captivity aged 26 years.
Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery so far from home but not from our hearts.

Also remembering the men of the (Army) Commandos, especially 4 Commando.

Last time I went to Blechley park I went with a friend of my grandmother who had been stationed there during the war. It is a very impressive place, particularly if you have a guide who knows their way around. I seem to remember something about Milton Keynes being built basically because it was somewhere for staff for Bletchley to live after the war (it acted as an intelligence centre even after the war, hense the near direct rail link to GCHQ)

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There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

In 1967, a small village was engulfed by the 'New City' of Milton Keynes which was built as a London 'over-spill'. I don't know anything about it being built for the workers of Station X.

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In memory of my great uncle, 5833402 Private Percy Bradbury, 5th Bn Suffolk Regiment. Captured at Singapore and died in captivity aged 26 years.
Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery so far from home but not from our hearts.

Also remembering the men of the (Army) Commandos, especially 4 Commando.