BLETCHLEY PARK HAS BECOME a tourist destination these days, complete with a neat integration when you search for it on Google (I won’t spoil the surprise). They cleverly lure you back by turning your day ticket into a season ticket when you leave, and with so many curios to discover, it took two visits before I headed to the Museum of Computing.
This rents out “Block H” and costs an extra £20 for a family ticket, but in return you get to see a working model of Colossus – the computer that helped solve the daily Enigma puzzle. Oh, and the museum also houses the world’s oldest working computer, a valve-based system that was originally built in 1951. Not only does it look amazing, it sounds stunning in action too.…
