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The From the home of the codebreakers and the birthplace of modern computing, this is the Bletchley Park podcast.

Welcome to the November 2018 episode of the Bletchley Park podcast, Eastcut, from

GCNCS to GCHQ.

In this month, it happened here.

We're marking 75 years since the establishment of Eastcote Outstation, the site at which

bomb machines were operated from the autumn of Eastcote Outstation, the site at which bomb machines were operated

from the autumn of 1943. By 1945, over 100 machines were at Eastcote, along with over 800

Wrens and RAF technicians and a small group of American GIs. But how did it start, and what was

life there really like? As usual, we're joined by Bletchley Park's research historian, Dr David Kenyon.

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It happened here.

David, why are we looking at East Coat this month?

We're looking at East Coat this month because the autumn of 1943, 75 years ago, was when the outstation, as it's called,

at East Coat first got going. What do you mean by outstations? The term outstation was specifically applied to locations where bomb machines were kept. And as the name implies, most of them weren't at Bletchley Park.

Ironically, one of the outstations, as it's called, is Bletchley Park itself. But they use the term

because the area where bomb machines were kept in height 11 and subsequently, High 11A, was known as an

outstation because it had bombs in it. But the other five exists in other places.

Are they still part of GCNCS?

Yes, they're very much part of GCNCS. And the staff who worked at them, when you look at the

tables of staff for GCNCS, they always get included. So they were considered to be an integral part

of GCNCS. Unlike the Y stations, which are administered separately, the bomb out stations are

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