Photographs of Bletchley Park

The mansion itself

View from the lake

Hut 6

Huts 6 and 3

Old and new - a camera crew setting up to film a group in period dress. In the background is Hut 4, aka the cafe ;)

First shot of Simon Singh, writer of The Code Book.

Interesting ceiling texture that I'll add to PhotoDesk at some point ;)

Simon Singh explaining how the code competition in the back of The Code Book

The man himself

Robert Harris, author of Enigma, Fatherland etc. Apparently he should have a new book out by now, but you know how these things are...

Model from the film Enigma

Simon Singh being interviewed...

...and Robert Harris has left the building.

The library #1

The library #2

Bombes - or at least, models of them from Enigma given to the Park.

Submarine conning tower from the film. Looking very much like rusted metal, closer inspection reveals it to be fibre glass over wood :)

Taking time off from taking over the world for a cuppa. Slightly less scary than some other pictures of WWII Germans I've seen recently...

The folks posing next to the submarine

Hmmm... now how do I get Slashdot on this thing?

Enigma rotors

The Real Thing

Lorenz cipher machine

The computer museum, looking a bit tidier than when I last saw it.

The Acorn hardware section

A PDP 11

Random Commodore hardware

A punch card sorter

The reconstruction of a Colossus computer.