E12 - Timely Visitors

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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July 2013

This month it’s all about Timely Visitors

Milton Keynes South MP & long time Bletchley Park supporter, Iain Stewart goes on a Hard Hat Tour to see some of the Heritage Lottery Funded restoration with the trusts CEO Iain Standen.

Then a few days later it was announced that former Bletchley Park Trust director Simon Greenish had been awarded an MBE for services to English heritage in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. We took Simon on his first tour of the restoration work that he had been fundamental in planning.

We also give you a taste of the Black Tie, Bremont Codebreaker Watch Launch. We have interviews with two of our amazing Veterans, Jean Valentine and Ruth Bourne. Bremont founders Nick and Giles English tell us why they wanted to celebrate the home of the codebreakers and The Three Belles keep us swinging.

For more information about Bremont go to http://www.bremont.com/ For more information about The Three Belles go to http://thethreebelles.com/

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The From the home of the co-breakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:41.8	Welcome to the July edition of the Bletchley Park podcast.
0:46.8	This month we had some timely visitors at the launch of a very special watch in the mansion.
0:50.5	The Trust's former director has been seeing the fruits of his labour,
0:53.8	after hearing he's been named on the Queen's birthday honours list. And the MP says the restoration of huts three, six and eleven and blocks C will really put Milton Keynes on the heritage map.
1:06.0	Bletchley Park's MP Ian Stewart took a tour of some of the buildings being brought back to life as part of the Heritage Lottery-funded project.
1:17.4	He was one of the first people in many years to be able to stand at one end of Block C and see all the way to the other end.
1:23.7	He was shown around by Bletchley Park's CEO, Ian Stanton.
1:26.7	Back to summer 1940.
1:30.0	Right.
1:30.3	So in the tennis courts here, you'll have a family tennis court, as was at the time
1:34.5	and grass.
1:35.3	And looking across the mansion here, what is now a car park will be grass.
1:39.1	In 1940, of course, they'd already built some huts on the car park here.
1:44.0	And those, because they'd long gone
1:45.5	will be marked out on the grass with sort of trenches with gravel in okay so you get the outline of the
1:50.4	huts that were here at the time so people can enjoy you know sitting out here and of course it evokes the
1:55.6	whole feeling that was here in the park and the wall which with these fairly rudimentary huts
1:59.7	and there's some nice grounds where people could sit out and enjoy it, which was part of the design of the place
2:03.8	that Denniston, who was the head of the Codesifer School, was very keen that people had recreational
2:07.6	space, so we'd take it back to that. And as you just heard, car going past us, stopping cars
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