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The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire has just received a donation of £50,000 from hi-tech firms IBM and PGP to help restore many of the exhibits.

It is hoped that this donation will help encourage further donations from public and industry to make up the estimated £7m needed to run and preserve the museum.

It was reported earlier this year that parts of historic Bletchley Park are in a poor state of repair and urgently need funds and work to preserve this historic site.

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Following on from the donations from IBM and PGP in September, Bletchley Park has secured a significant grant from English Heritage

The £330,000 grant will enable urgent roof works at Bletchley Park - where Allied codebreakers worked in World War II.

Discussions are also in progress regarding a further £600,000 funding programme over three years for the historic site.

The donation follows efforts to highlight the dilapidated state of the huts and other buildings at Bletchley.

The rooms of the Grade II-listed mansion, with painted ceilings, timber panelling, and ornate plasterwork, are at risk because the roof has been patched rather than renovated so many times during the 130 years of the mansion's history.

The work funded by the grant is projected to finish in March.

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