Why is this country so bad at looking after its own historic sites?
Surely one of the places that was central to the UK surviving WW II was Bletchley Park with its concentration of Mathematicians and Cryptographers contributing so much to the decoding of enemy messages warrants looking after?
Despite a number of fund raising campaigns in the UK including a group of 97 senior scientists who wrote to The Times to highlight the plight of the museum, it seems that the pockets of UK citizens and companies have been so shallow that Bletchley Park have teemed up with IBM and PGP to try for restoration funds from the USA!
I visited Bletchley Park in May last year and saw some of the work that the Trust was doing, however as with any restoration and preservation project, it requires ongoing access to funds.
I am not sure why the UK Government or Lottery funds cannot be made available help with this important Heritage work. Perhaps its the same head-in-the-sand attitude that lost the UK its position in the emerging computer industry after WW II!
The trust has a donation site, so if you want to help save a fundamental piece of history that, if Bletchley Park had not been successful with its work, it’s likely that you would not be reading about it now!
Beasley's Place 