Bringing a Secret History up to date – 8th July 2025 – Mark Temple
We are not very far from two important centres of research, information, code breaking and listening, which played a very important role in helping the Allies defeat the Axis powers during World War 2, namely:
- Beaumanor Hall, near Loughborough and
- Bletchley Park, now part of modern-day Milton Keynes.
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In 1941 MI8 set up a project, under the direction of Churchill’s war office, to establish wireless intelligence (W.I or Y) stations in over 30 locations all over the country. Their job was to intercept communications being sent between enemy forces across Europe. Beaumanor was generally regarded as the most important of these stations transcribing and sending coded messages down to Bletchley Park in the hope they could be deciphered. It was an operation that Churchill later said contributed greatly to the ending of the war.