EAW010083 ENGLAND (1947). Letchworth Garden City Industrial Estate and environs, Letchworth Garden City, 1947

WW2 Camouflage Scheme Factory

WW2 Camouflage Scheme Factory

British Tabulating Machine Company from the rear. Vital, top secret, work was undertaken here during WW2, enabling the German Enigma codes to be decyphered. The chief engineer, Harold (Doc) Keen worked with Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman of Bletchley Park to produce the Bombe code breaking machines which were manufactured here. The first machine, named Victory, was completed and delivered to Hut 1, Bletchley Park (by an open lorry without guard so as not to attract attention)in March 1940. A further prototype named Agnus Dei or Agnes/Aggie was installed at Bletchley in August 1940. A further 210 machines were produced up to 1945. See: http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/British_Tabulating_Machine_Co

Icknield Way East

T H Dixon factory Still there!

Football Ground

Baldock Road

Recreation ground ( bordered by Icknield Way,Green Lane and Glebe Road )

Letchworth Gate

Pixmore Avenue

Cromwell Road

Glebe Road

Kryn and Lahy factory (foundry)

Level crossing

Footbridge over railway (Icknield Way to Works Road)

Chater Lea factory

Dunhams Lane

A1

Co-op Creamery

Jackmans Place

Dimsdale Place

St.Pauls Church

Baldock Road recreation ground

Site of Chatterton on the Jackmans estate

Jackmans plantation