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Article #768GCHQ's location.
From: Simon Read
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:02
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:02
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No big secret! GCHQ is near Cheltenham. It's an enormous group of buildings, shouldn't be hard to find. I think there are even signposts. Bletchley Park is a stately home, I think, I've always assumed that it was near Bletchley, Bucks. But perhaps that's too simple. Bletchley Park was the wartime codebreaking centre, AM Turing and all that. Hasn't it become the headquarters of the IBM research division? Cheltenham is about halfway between Bristol and Birmingham (i.e. on the left hand side of mainland Britain). Bletchley, Bucks. is about 40 miles North of London (i.e. it would be on the right hand side of Britain if it didn't bulge out so much on the right). I suppose the distance between them is only about 40 miles, but that's a long way on this tiny Isalnd of ours. I wouldn't have thought there would be a museum on the site at Cheltenham. I haven't heard of a crypto museum in Britain. If anyone can put me right I'd like to know. I would be fascinating to go.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!mucs!nessie!nessie!segr From: segr@nessie.mcc.ac.uk (Simon Read) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: GCHQ's location. Message-ID: <1992Aug28.150246.1948@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 28 Aug 92 15:02:46 GMT Sender: segr@nessie (Simon Read) Organization: Manchester Computing Centre Lines: 22