Bletchley Girls

[Gwendoline Francis]

I would love to find out more of those Bletchley Girls, very few of them still living. They did such a good job doing their bit for the WW2 effort.
I often wonder why after the war ended they had to keep so secret about what they did?
Does anyone actually know of such a girl/woman that did so much at Bletchley Park?

I lived in Harrow during the last years of the war, so that far from Bletchley.

[dawnsh]

The secrecy was due to National Security

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/

http://www.gchq.gov.uk/history/Pages/Bletchley-Park---Post-War.aspx

[IMBER]

It's strange that you refer to "Bletchley Girls when that just happens to be the title of a book to be published next year:

https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781444795738

If you think it might be too expensive then alert your public library to this and ask them to place an order in advance of publication.

Imber

[Gwendoline Francis]

A friend of mine just told me about a newspaper article of a few surviving Bletchley girls. These girls were in the Wrens & the article shows great reading of them during those years & now. I am completely fascinated by their bravery.

[Gwendoline Francis]

Thanks Dawnsh, for your most informative post concerning Bletchley Park. I find it fascinating reading.
I am also interested in Alan Turing, a brilliant man who was treated so unfairly even after his involvement with the Enigma machine that helped win the war WW2.

[Gwendoline Francis]

Did those people, men & women, who worked at Bletchley Park live in digs close by, if so, how did they keep their coming & goings so secret? Just curious!

[Treetotal]

Hi...I posted a link to the book "The Secrets of Bletchley Park" on the other thread about Bletchley that you responded on...well worth buying as it tells how the workers were billeted close by but never divulged where they worked or what they did...the secrecy in the village was accepted by the locals and they didn't question it.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=704634.msg5482671#msg5482671


Carol

[youngtug]

The local newspaper yesterday had this about a local woman who was involved; http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/features/11601201.New_film_lifts_lid_on_codebreakers__role_in_history/

[everlea]

Did those people, men & women, who worked at Bletchley Park live in digs close by, if so, how did they keep their coming & goings so secret? Just curious!

Around 1990 I spent a week at Bletchley on a course run by BT. We spent our days in the main

house, but slept in the original huts used as on- site accommodation for these workers during WW2.

Ashamed to say I knew very little about Bletchley before then.