Recent content by jon wallsgrove

The vaults underneath Birmingham's Victoria Law Courts are absolutely amazing and very extensive. There are huge spaces, tiny spaces, long winding corridors, They even have a working portcullis. The actual interiors of the public and private spaces of the courts are amazing too.

According to Winterbotham's book, he insisted on personally interviewing anyone who was to handle the top secret Ultra material. There would be two people in the generals' HQ in each theatre of war communicating the briefings, plus about 30 people in BP preparing the briefings. So it was not too...

Thanks for the links. Bill Berrett's pages from his student work are fascinating. He clearly had exactly the same structures and history lectures in 1950 as my mother had in 1940. Her notebooks have the same notes and sketches in the same sequence. I knew about Freddie Gibberd. He was my...

Thanks for this feedback. My mother was interviewed and recruited by Fred Winterbotham, who later wrote the first history of Bletchley Park. When BP closed she was posted to Wilton House near Salisbury where she continued her work for MI6. By coincidence, she had studied and sketched Wilton...

My mother, Nancy Stowe, attended the school of architecture within the school of art from 1940 to1950, with a 4 year gap from 1944 to 1947 when she worked for MI6 at Bletchley Park and other secret locations. Her creative skills as an architect were used to interpret the broken coded messages...