Every year Herself and a friend embark on what she deprecatingly calls an old lady holiday, though it’s not really that. This year they visited Bletchley Park, the home of the second World War codebreakers. Of course, the project would never have happened without them, but the main bulk of the labour was carried out by people who didn’t know what they were doing. In those days Bletchley wasn’t close to any towns (Milton Keynes wasn’t created until decades later), so everyone lived onsite. Herself and her friend were told about a married couple who had both worked in Bletchley before they met.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2025 09:01 UTC