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Conclusion
Since the war Bletchley Park has fortunately remained largely intact, except for the loss of some
of the original smaller huts and also of Block F, which housed the Newmanry and the first
Colossus computers. Today Bletchley Park looks much as it did in Turing’s time.
The Guardian newspaper aptly said:^16
It’s terrific that Bletchley Park has not only been rescued from the decay into which the site had
fallen, but brilliantly restored . . . Even at its lowest ebb, Bletchley had a magical aura.
Magical indeed. Google’s head of communications Peter Barron speaks for many young people
when he says:^17
a lot of our staff feel that if they had been around during the war they would have wanted to
work at Bletchley Park.
figure 19.3 Bletchley Park’s slate statue of Turing with an Enigma machine, by Stephen Kettle, part of the ‘Life
and Works of Alan Turing’ exhibition.^15
Stephen Kettle (http://www.stephenkettle.co.uk). Photograph by Jonathan Bowen.