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The Tunnels Of Bletchley Park

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Once a month a group of geeks and tech lovers meet up at Bletchley Park to network, chat, and talk about how best to raise awareness for Bletchley Park’s campaign for survival.
This meeting is called Station X (@StationX) after the 10th Mi6 radio station that was situated at the Park.
During the last meeting, Station X regular and Bletchley Park volunteer Adam (@Computid) mentioned that he found the entrance of a tunnel in one of the buildings whilst moving some equipment.
Mention tunnels at a Station X get together and you are certain to prick my curiosity. There are legends a-plenty about passageways under the park leading to and from the station and pub.. But that’s just what they are Legends. Survey teams have been brought in to find proof of the interconnecting tunnels and chambers that were meant to bring the workers in secretly and allow Churchill safe passage to the pub.
No one has found them.
That doesn’t mean they are not there though.
A small group of us followed Adam to where he found the opening and lo and behold there in the floor, covered by wood and partly concealed with a concrete beam was a hole with a rusty ladder leading down.
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So I went down..

Dark dank and full of cobwebs, It was obvious that no one had been down in a while. I borrowed Gordon’s (@gt_p) camera and took a few photos. There was a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Perhaps I should draw a parallel to Bletchley Park’s use of social media and the hope that all will come good in the end.

 

On this occasion the light signified that this may well be an innocent service tunnel linking departments in a now run down and disused building. Not  as we had hoped, a shortcut to the pub.

 

The mystery continues and the hunt still goes on.

 

If you want to join us in our discoveries at Bletchley Park and help fight the good fight you can follow @BletchleyPark and @StationX on twitter..

 

Or better still make a donation to The Bletchley Park Trust

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  4. I want to go look at Bletchley Park – I keep meaning to ask my Dad it he wants to go one day. It’s not too far from Bedford so it’s something we could do one weekend. He’s really interested in the Enigma machine and stuff like that (bit of a war-info geek lol).

  5. @GirltaristHan if you come to #bpark on a @StationX day you and your Dad may get special access to non public places.

  6. Works are being carried out at Bletchley Train Station to extend the platform. A little bird tells me they came across tunnels and even a munitions bunker, and the army had to go in to extract! May be this could be linked to the Park?

  7. I know where a tunnel is in Bletchley Park. A guide showed us on one of the first tours they did of the park when it opened as a museum. Don’t they show people it anymore?

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