Having identified my locations, I wanted to give myself the best chance to take the best photographs I could. I thought the only way to do this would be to ask permission rather than just arrive at these places unannounced and hope for the best.
My first task was to contact Bletchley Park. The park is open to the public and is a fantastic place to visit to learn all about how its occupants worked in secret to break the German ENIGMA codes. It has been said that the work done by the Bletchley code breakers helped shorten the war by two years and how it saved millions of lives in the process. I had visited the park a couple of years ago so had an idea of the things I wanted to photograph but also remembered that there were certain areas at Bletchley, especially the Mansion House, that were cordoned off from the public, in particular, the radio room on the roof of the Mansion.
I decided to contact the Bletchley Park Press office to ask if I could have permission to photograph some of the areas that were off limits to the general public. My contact at Bletchley Park was Media Relations Manager Katherine Lynch.
After explaining the outline of my project and the areas I wanted to shoot at Bletchley, Katherine replied back advising that whilst I could photograph wherever I liked at the park, unfortunately they could not grant me access to anywhere that wasn’t already open to the public. This was a slight knock back but nothing that was going to stop me going there and shooting the first location for this assignment.
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