Campaigners hoping to restore dilapidated Bletchley Park, where Second World War code-breakers deciphered the German Enigma machine, have received a major boost with a £330,000 English Heritage grant to repair the roof.
Seeping rainwater has threatened the structure of the Grade II listed Victorian Gothic building near Milton Keynes, described as being as important as the Cabinet War Rooms.
Despite its critical importance to modern British history, Bletchley Park is not funded directly by the government. It was in a very poor state of repair when the trust took it on in 1992, turning it into a museum.
Speaking from the restored Hut 8, Mr Greenish said: "It was here that the Battle of the Atlantic was won."
A fascination virtual tour of Bletchley Park with Tony Sale, the founder and original curator of the museum, can be found here at codesandciphers.org.uk.
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