Extra - E20 - Nick Coffer Part 2

Bletchley Park

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4.8 • 177 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

April 2013

This is the second and final part of Nick Coffers BBC 3 Counties Show, which was broadcast from Block B at Bletchley Park during the 3rd Enigma Challenge.

It starts with Nick being taken on a tour by Bletchley Park guide and historian Joel Greenberg.

Thanks again to The BBC 3 Counties OB Team, Emma Smith & Gareth Lloyd, Nick Coffer of course, Joel Greenberg, The Bombe Rebuild Team & The 3 Belles.

#BPark, #Enigma, #BBC3CR, #NickCoffer

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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.
0:37.0	This is M.C. Fontaine, welcoming you to another Bletchley Park podcast Extra.
0:42.4	This is the second and final part of Nick Koffer's BBC Three Counties show,
0:46.4	which was broadcast from Block B at Bletchley Park during the Third Enigma Challenge.
0:50.8	It starts with Nick being taken on a tour by Bletchley Park guide and historian Joel Greenberg.
1:01.0	Joel Greenberg is one of the historians here and also hosts some of the tours that you yourself can visit if you want to book yourself on.
1:09.0	He showed me around this site earlier
1:11.0	on today. I'm right in the heart of Bletchley Park, literally in the park part overlooking the
1:16.6	very pretty lake. There are birds on the lake and the house is in front of me, the mansion house.
1:21.6	And behind me in a completely different style and these very old 1940 style buildings. Joel Greenberg is with me. Joel,
1:29.3	what are we looking at behind us here? Well, we're looking at some of the wartime huts that were
1:34.7	thrown up in 1939 after the Government Code and Sarfers School arrived around August 15th.
1:39.8	The mansion house was obviously here, pre-war rich family house.
1:45.2	And as the government code in Cyprus school came here, MI6 decided to use this place.
1:50.7	They had about 55 acres.
1:52.7	And they wanted to establish a war station for intelligence activities outside of London.
1:57.7	And, of course, to accommodate the people they were going to come here, started with about 200. They started throwing up wartime wooden huts. Hopefully they thought they would last
2:05.9	five years and they're still here 70 odd years later, some of them. Hutt 3. And it's fair to say,
2:12.3	Joel, that it's somewhat dilapidated. What's it made of? Most of the huts were made from Canadian pine during the war.
2:21.0	You'll see some brickwork here. All huts were surrounded by six foot high bomb blast walls.
2:26.1	They're obviously worried about being attacked. Most of the windows had shutters hinged at the bottom so they could flip them up quite quickly
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