Posted in Architecture at 20:30 on 31 August 2022
Stanley is a village in Perth and Kinross, built in the late 1700s to house workers for a local mill.
Old church, now apparently unsafe to approach or enter:-
St Columba’s Episcopal Church. Unusually for Scotland built in wood:-
Memorial to Stanley Mills. Stanley Mills is now a housing complex with an added “visitor experience” run by Historic Environment Scotland.
Posted in History, Museums at 12:00 on 26 May 2021
The codebreakers at Bletchley Park were indebted to the Polish secret service for helping break the Enigma code and for smuggling an Enigma machine to them just as war broke out.
At the entrance to the courtyard of houses seen in yesterday’s post lies a memorial to three of these Polish contributors. In Polish and English it commemorates, “the work of Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, mathematicians of the Polish intelligence service, in first breaking the Enigma code. Their work greatly assisted the Bletchley Park code breakers and contributed to the Allied victory in World War II.”
Nearer the main museum building is this memorial to those who worked at Bletchley Park. The letters read, “WE ALSO SERVED.”
Reverse of memorial:-
