<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>QuadList members might remember the WWII "Enigma Machine" that helped the Allies read German messages unbeknownst to the Germans.</div><div><br></div><div>Earlier this month, the opportunity to visit where the code-breaking happened brought QuadList member George Keller and his wife Ann across the Atlantic to London and UK QuadList member Trevor Brown and his wife Pauline down from Leeds in the north east corner of England. </div><div><br></div><div>They visited Bletchley Park, 50 miles northwest of London, in Buckinghamshire. Once the home to a wealthy finacial family, it was about to be demolished by a developer... when events change the course of the property's history:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bletchleypark.org/content/hist/early.rhtm">http://www.bletchleypark.org/content/hist/early.rhtm</a><br><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(3, 27, 75); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">It was 1938 and the threat of war loomed as Hitler invaded first Austria and then Czechoslovakia. The Government Code and Cypher School, then based in London, needed a safer home where its intelligence work could carry on unhindered by enemy air attacks. At a junction of major road, rail and teleprinter connections to all parts of the country, Bletchley Park was eminently suitable.</p></div></div><div><div><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(3, 27, 75); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Commanded by Alastair Denniston, the Park was given the cover name Station X, being the tenth of a large number of sites acquired by MI6 for its wartime operations.</p></div></div><div><div><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(3, 27, 75); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">After meticulous preparation and a series of trial runs, the codebreakers arrived in earnest in August 1939. They masqueraded as 'Captain Ridley's Shooting Party' to disguise their true identity. It was to be the first instalment in one of the most remarkable stories of the Second World War.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>Here's George's post and pictures, which got halted in delivery because of too many recipients in the address line.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted<br><div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Sent: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 3:44 pm</span><br><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px; ">Subject: Visit to Bletchley Park</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica; color: black; font-size: 10pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></span></font></div></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><font color="black" size="2" face="arial"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica; color: black; font-size: 10pt; "><div id="AOLMsgPart_2_fc80f95c-a856-4c56-895e-92d74660e8be"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div>Earlier this month, (Sep 5) a group of former CT's got together for a visit to Bletchley Park. It was great. </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></font></span><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="position: static; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13px; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div>A few days before this, (Sep 4) was A Bletchley Veterans Reunion. There were many of the original Bletchley ladies there and they were great. We actually had an opportunity to chat with some of them.</div><div> </div><div>A few more fotos in later e-mails to to keep the size of the e-mails smaller.</div><div> </div><div>73,</div><div> </div><div>George Keller</div></td></tr></tbody></table><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "></span></div></blockquote></div></div><span></span></body></html>