Bletchley Park, birth-place of the computer, faces uncertain future after pandemic hits income
https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/22/bletchley-park-birth-place-of-the-computer-faces-uncertain-future-after-pandemic-hits-income/
Bletchley Park is an English country house that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. It built the world’s first programmable digital electronic computer, cracking the Enigma Machine and thus helping turn the tide of the war against Nazi Germany. But now the institution that preserves that history is in trouble.
The Bletchley Park Trust which runs the site today, which also houses the UK’s National Museum of Computing, has been hit by the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis. It’s now lost over 95% of its income leaving a large gap in its annual budget.