Trip to Bletchley Park

On Saturday 16th May dad and I went to Bletchley Park, (Wikipedia link) as a belated present from me for his birthday. We saw the mansion (including 'The Imitation Game' exhibition), huts where most of the code breaking took place (including Alan Turing's office), the museum which included a replica of the Bombe machine which helped to speed up the code breaking, the National Radio Centre and the National Museum of Computing:

We learned about what the codebreaking included; here is a little bit more about the Bombe machine:

The visual-audio guides were great, and included interviews with people who actually worked at the park during WWII.

We only had an hour at the computing museum, but saw some replicas (including Colossus - the first computer, again used for code breaking)  and actual examples of old computers. This is the Colossus replica:

Great day :-)