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Question 1 Bletchley Park (station X) was set up in 1938 by MI6 so that the British could crack the German code and know what the Germans where doing. It was just outside London near a town called Bletchley, it had good road and rail links and good communications, it wouldn't attract attention and it was in the countryside so expansion would be easy. Bletchley Park was the home of the secret Government Code and Cipher School. This was the centre of British code-breaking during the war. The code-breakers were specially chosen from among the cleverest people in the country. Some were brilliant mathematicians or linguists. By 1944 they had a big team to help them. Seven thousand men and women worked in shifts round the clock in small wooden or concrete buildings known as 'Huts'. Many did repetitive but important jobs like filing or operating the code-breaking machines. At the start of the...

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