Hello all, [ From the BBC News web site] I see that thanks to the generosity of Hewlett Packard donating several scanners to them, that Bletchley Park will be able to put on line documents and pictures stored there. There may well be items of interest to family historians among them. I did not find out until very recently that the headmaster of my secondary school in Croydon worked there as a code breaker. Mind you, I am not sure how the documents avoided getting to The National Archives! Indeed, it raises the question of how many other articles of national Interest avoid archives. Phil

Phil Warn wrote: > [ From the BBC News web site] You beat me to it :)) The link to the news story is : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10239623.stm > I see that thanks to the generosity of Hewlett Packard donating > several scanners to them, that Bletchley Park will be able to put on > line documents and pictures stored there. It's a long term project according to the article with the first phase expected to take at least three years. > There may well be items of interest to family historians among them. It should be interesting anyway but especially so for those with someone involved > I did not find out until very recently that the headmaster of my > secondary school in Croydon worked there as a code breaker. And there were the students wondering how he knew what was going on, despite the secret messages being sent ;)) Now you know <G> > Mind you, I am not sure how the documents avoided getting to The > National Archives! Possibly because of the nature of the work being done there, plus the government makes its own rules from time to time. > Indeed, it raises the question of how many other articles of national > Interest avoid archives. Probably a lot more than we realise or would wish. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk