#bletchley

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Tiled panel depicting livestock, Sainsbury's, Brunel Centre, Bletchley. 1970s. From the Sainsbury Archive.

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Brora Close, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire.

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Princess of Wales is 'getting better,' Prince William tells D-Day veterans

6 June 2024

The Prince of Wales has said the Princess would have loved to join him for the “very moving” D-Day anniversary event in Portsmouth on Wednesday as he said she was “getting better.”

The Prince, the King and the Queen chatted to D-Day veterans after the ceremony, shaking their hands and thanking them for their service.

He was asked by Geoffrey Weaving, aged 100, how the Princess of Wales was faring with her cancer treatment and replied:

“Yes, she is getting better, yes. She would have loved to be here today.

I was reminding everyone how her grandmother served at Bletchley, so she had quite a bit in common with some of the ladies here who were at Bletchley.

They never spoke about anything until the very end – it was all very secret.”

The Prince, who bent down to speak to Mr Weaving in his wheelchair, added:

“Geoffrey, it was lovely to see you. We’ll see you in five years time for the 85th.”

Mr Weaving, who served with the Navy, has previously recalled arriving on the French coast on 6 June 1944 and finding the sea “full of dead bodies” as warships started firing upon Allied troops who ran for their lives onto the sand.

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Things to do in Milton Keynes

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A Royal Recycling (part 240)

Alexander McQueen

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Re-built Colosuss, National Museum of Computing, Bletchley, England.

Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used thermionic valves (vacuum tubes) to perform Boolean and counting operations. Colossus is thus regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored program.

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Walnut long case clock

The clock case come in for restoration after the owner become to ill to complete the making of the case and I was ask to finish this of and then French polish the woodwork inside and out. The movement needed to be oiled and fitted before the case was delivered back to the customer , for him to enjoy while he still can . Sometimes it’s not about the age or value of a peace . But what it brings to the owner

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The Bletchley Circle - Millie and Lucy, series one