A family-friendly exhibition at Bletchley Park is showcasing rare, never-before-seen wartime sketches and drawings of people and places associated with the former top-secret codebreaking site in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
The Illustration Game: Sketches from the Archives features fun and sometimes enigmatic sketches from the Bletchley Park collection, providing a fascinating insight into its wartime story. Running in the original World War II Hut 12 until 3 November 2019, the exhibition contains powerful examples of how details and memories can survive in pictures.
Highlights from the display include a rare sketch of ‘The Women of Hut 4’ by Hut 8 codebreaker Penelope Bishop, a caricature of Bletchley Park’s Head of Air Section Josh Cooper, a lively drawing of dispatch riders in training, and the beautiful 1945 illustration seen here of a Bombe operator heading off on night duty, drawn by Bletchley Park veteran and Oscar, Emmy and Bafta award-winning costume designer Phyllis Dalton.