Were they also being put up in the hostel or in local accommodation?

They were.

So this provides an opportunity for the administration.

If you can get some of those service people out of billets, you get more space for civilians.

And there are more and more of them in uniform.

Eventually, they do form a majority.

So quite quickly, they start talking about, well, can we get some military camps built? The problem is the people who need to do that, who need to marshal the resources to build those hundreds of huts, are the same people that GCNCS is bickering with constantly about how you do intelligence.

So before the canteen was built, were people in the dining room? Was that trying to feed as many people as possible or were there other spaces on the site?

And and just give this American audience an idea of what Bletchley was and what they did.

Well, let me start with what it is now.

We're about half an hour outside of London.

We're easy to get to.

We're right there.

And I'm quite often asked, are you still operational? Do you work for the government? No, no, no.

We're a museum and charity now.

We have, you know, we rely a lot more on trust and then verified with, you know, polygraphs and things like that, background checks, which which but from what I glean that in English society, they took the Official Secrets Act very, very seriously.