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On November 9th 2024, the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) commemorated the 80th anniversary year of the Colossus code breaking machines with the unveiling of a prestigious World Origin Site plaque, recognising Colossus as the…
On Monday 10 June the Post Office Remembrance Fellowship (PORF) was delighted to welcome guests to the NMA for the re-dedication of the GPO Memorial Garden, which it has funded. After some three years of…
While Alan Turning gets justifiable fame for his WWII computer work, he needed help, and now a Blue Plaque has been installed to celebrate the electrical engineer who made it all possible, Tommy Flowers. Tommy…
PORF trustees Simon Kelly and Debbie Terry were delighted to visit Bristol on 1st November to celebrate the replacement memorial benches paid for by the PORF after their predecessors were repeatedly vandalised until they had…
The PORF’s Vice-Chair of Trustees, Jenny Cole, was recently delighted to attend a reception at 10 Downing Street in connection with our work with the Museum. The event was to demonstrate how Artificial Intelligence has…
The outstanding philanthropic support given by The Post Office Remembrance Fellowship to Bletchley Park Trust has been recognised in the naming of its new, state-of-the-art, 250 seat presentation and event space, as The Fellowship Auditorium.…
The National Museum of Computing is home to the worlds largest collection of working historic computers, and is at Block H, Bletchley Park Estate. The PORF is delighted to support the National Museum of Computing…
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve recently awarded the CWGF, which is the charity arm of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, a significant grant to develop three ambitious projects which will provide a living memorial to men…
As part of the refurbishment of the GPO Memorial garden at the National Arboretum, a plaque commemorating seven Birmingham postmen who lost their lives in World War II was found to be in poor condition,…
Bletchley Park Trust and the Post Office Remembrance Fellowship have a shared WW2 heritage through the connection between the General Post Office (GPO) and the Bletchley Park codebreaking operation. Bletchley Park’s work depended on secure communications…