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Turing. But these wonderfully clever mathematicians, language graduates and engineers were
complemented by people with different sets of skills, harnessing that brilliance through methodi-
cal, unglamorous, hard slog. Thus the secret of Bletchley’s success was that it became a home to
all the talents.
The Queen was introduced to Jean Valentine (see Fig. 12.11), Jerry Roberts (see Fig. 16.2)
and other veterans, and also to John Harper’s wonderful recreation of the bombe shown in
Fig. 19.2.^11
By the time of the Queen’s visit, the site had been saved from developers and rescued from
bankruptcy, and most of its buildings were by then properly maintained; also its significance
was recognized nationally and internationally. Attention now focused on using the unique site
to dramatize the codebreakers’ story for the general public. To this end a number of new perma-
nent exhibitions were installed, including ‘Life and Works of Alan Turing’ (curated by Gillian
Mason and Jack Copeland) and ‘Hitler’s “Unbreakable” Cipher Machine’, telling the story of the
Tunny machine and how it succumbed to the ingenuity of Tutte, Turing, Flowers, and others
(also curated by Mason and Copeland). Stephen Kettle’s statue of Turing is a prominent feature
of the ‘Life and Works of Alan Turing’ exhibition (Fig. 19.3).
The 2012 Alan Turing Year, celebrating Turing’s centenary (see Chapters 2 and 42) helped
to make Bletchley Park widely known internationally. Bletchley Park’s own contribution to
the Turing year ‘The Turing Education Day’ sold out weeks in advance: like this book, the
Bletchely Park event aimed to explain Turing’s scientific ideas to a general audience (the event
was organized by Jack Copeland, Claire Urwin, and Huma Shah). In 2014, the first phase of
a new restoration and development project was opened by Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Cambridge, thanks to a grant in 2011 of £5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund, reeled
in by a small group that included Kelsey Griffin, Bletchley Park’s Director of Operations
and Communication—and additional contributions totalling £3 million from the Foreign
Office, Google, and other companies, trusts and foundations.^12 Bletchley Park’s Director of
Development Claire Glazebrook says:
The public also got behind the campaign and gave generously.
The money funded not only state-of-the-art museum facilities and the imaginative new
visitor centre in Block C, but also extensive upgrades to the site and its landscaping, all help-
ing to return Bletchley Park towards its wartime appearance (even to the point of cars being
excluded from the central site). Two codebreakers’ huts neighbouring Turing’s already mag-
nificently restored Hut 8—Hut 3 and Hut 6—were put back into their original condition and
lovingly repainted in their wartime colours.^13
In 2015, on the anniversary of VE Day, current CEO Iain Standen unveiled the plan for the
next stage of development:^14
The future of Bletchley Park has already been safeguarded for the nation, but this Masterplan is
the next milestone on the road to completing its restoration for all future generations to experi-
ence, learn from and enjoy.