Rare WW2 images of snowy Bletchley Park revealed

Rare images taken at the codebreaking site Bletchley Park during World War Two have been revealed.

The Buckinghamshire-based charity said they were snapped in 1939 and 1940 when it was the "coldest winter in 45 years", and show codebreakers enjoying the cold spell when they were able to skate on the frozen lake.

"Few photographs exist of wartime Bletchley Park, as security was tight and photography generally forbidden," said a Bletchley Park Trust spokesperson.

"However, staff sometimes bent the rules."

The images are from a photo album that once belonged to Claude Henderson, a Foreign Office civilian, who worked at the park.

He passed the collection to his niece Joan Wingfield, who was a temporary junior assistant who he helped recruit.

Wingfield then married Arthur Bonsall, an Air Ministry civilian also based at the site, and the photos were passed to their daughter and current owner; Judith Hodsdon.

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