Code & Cypher Systems Exhibition
at Beaumanor Hall - Site of secret WW2 Listening Station
John Alexander (Bletchley Park 'Enigma & Friends') and Ian Foulkes
(Royal Signals Museum Blandford Forum) announce 'Codes!'
at Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse. A five-day Exhibition of Radio Interception
Equipment, Codes and Cypher Systems and Machines
Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse, Leicestershire.
10:00 am - 4:00 pm, 26 March - Friday 30 March 2007
John Alexander is a Leicester-based collector
of code and cypher equipment. Ian Foulkes is
an Assistant Curator of the Royal Signals Museum at Blandford Camp, Blandford
Forum, Dorset.
For five days only, the exhibition is open to the general public and
at no cost.
"Codes' " is intended to bring the history of Beaumanor, the
'Y' service, the Royal Signals Reg. and the Codebreakers of Bletchley
Park to a wider audience .. and with some rarely seen equipment on show.
With this compact exhibition space, the visitor can become acquainted
with WWII radio receivers as used at Beaumanor, with some British code
and cypher systems, the famous German Enigma machine and others - British,
American, European, Scandinavian and Russian.
Were banks of Radio Receivers based at Beaumanor (and elsewhere) during
WWII? Yes, and important they were too. Ian will bring some of these 'sets'
along to see.
A tactical cypher machine used by the Americans during WWII and later?
The M209 - one of John's will be available.
What was the British 'Slidex'? Ian will describe the use of this British
battlefield cypher system from WWII and later.
Is Mrs Alexander jealous of "NOREEN'? Not really, NOREEN is really
a British cypher system originally used in some British embassies abroad.
A high level cypher machine used by the Russians during the Cold War?
One such system is the M125 'Fialka', a 'super-Enigma'. Come and see it
at Beaumanor.
MORE ...
This is a not-for-profit exhibition intended to take wartime radio intercept
matters, code and cypher systems out to a wider audience and in the beautiful
surroundings of Beaumanor Hall.
We do of course hope that visitors will want to learn more by visiting
Beaumanor Hall, Bletchley Park and The Royal Signals Museum at Blandford
Camp.
CONTACT (1):
John Alexander
Home: 0116 2291080
Mobile: 07968 373881
jalex_uk at ntlworld.com
CONTACT (2):
Ian Foulkes
Blandford Royal Signals Museum: 01258 482248
About: John Alexander: Former Police Officer, now involved in 'Technical
Surveillance Counter Measures' (TSCM).
About: Ian Foulkes: Former Sergeant of The Royal Signals, a highly qualified
Assistant at the Royal Signals Museum and collector of military uniforms.
About: 'Enigma & Friends': A private collection based in Bletchley
Park, a collaborative exhibit combining privately collected equipment
with cypher systems once used within the British Foreign & Commonwealth
Office and around the world.
http://www.bletchleypark.org
About: Blandford Museum: This is the national museum of Army communications
and the exhibits and displays show the part that communications have played
in the many wars and campaigns of the last 150 years.
http://www.army.mod.uk/royalsignalsmuseum/
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