Bletchley Park

The building isn’t important really, but what happened in it is. They should transfer whatever they can to the Science Museum or somewhere to keep it safe. The knowledge of what happened there, and how their activities played such an important part in WW2 should be preserved. The building is just a building.

@chickenman wrote:

Bletchley Park is struggling to survive. the building is in a state of disrepair to the point of the trust having to sell roof tiles to keep the museum going.
This was properly one of the most important buildings of the second world war.
The Bletchley Park Trust receives no external funding. It has been deemed ineligible for funding by the National Lottery, and turned down by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation because the Microsoft founder will only fund internet-based technology projects.
A developer wants to build housing on the site. Should the government fund the museum and building and save it from being lost for ever ?
there is a petition on the downing street website for those who want to save it.

i live just down the road to bletchley park, used to work there and have been under the buldings chicken man, the building is fascinating , it gives u a sense of history , it has to stay its lovely and set in beautiful grounds too

@cath 55 wrote:

@chickenman wrote:

Bletchley Park is struggling to survive. the building is in a state of disrepair to the point of the trust having to sell roof tiles to keep the museum going.
This was properly one of the most important buildings of the second world war.
The Bletchley Park Trust receives no external funding. It has been deemed ineligible for funding by the National Lottery, and turned down by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation because the Microsoft founder will only fund internet-based technology projects.
A developer wants to build housing on the site. Should the government fund the museum and building and save it from being lost for ever ?
there is a petition on the downing street website for those who want to save it.

i live just down the road to bletchley park, used to work there and have been under the buldings chicken man, the building is fascinating , it gives u a sense of history , it has to stay its lovely and set in beautiful grounds too

I have never been there, so perhaps I was hasty. But the National Trust are pretty good at snapping up likely looking sites with grounds, so am not sure why they haven’t bid for this one. Must be something we don’t know if the Lottery turned it down too.

Perhaps a TV company could buy it. I bet a lot have used it in the past for films etc, so maybe it would be fitting of them to save it after it has helped them in the past.