![]() ![]() ![]() The women did not know and they were not allowed to ask. Because it was vital that the Nazis (and later, the Japanese) not know that their transmissions were being intercepted, each cog in the mighty machine did not know what others were doing. Today the site is a heritage tourist attraction but during the war it was top secret and the people who worked there were all bound by the Official Secrets Act.įor the young women recruited into the service-from the ATS, the WRENS, the WAAF and civilian life-their work was a complete mystery. As the war progressed, Bletchley grew from modest beginnings in 1938 to employing thousands of people engaged in the complex work of decoding enemy transmissions, and was the birthplace of modern computing. ![]() This remarkable history of the unsung women of Bletchley is an eye-opener into working conditions that none of us would tolerate today…īletchley Park, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and the TV series The Bletchley Circle, was the centre of intelligence gathering in Britain. It’s not possible to read a book like this without being a little awestruck at what ordinary people endured in Britain during WW2. ![]()
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