Three women who helped crack the Enigma code were cheered at a lecture on the role of Bletchley Park's 'codebreakers' in the Second World War.

There was standing room only at Bridges in Monmouth last Tuesday (16th August) for a lecture given by Dr Mark Baldwin which focussed on the Battle of the Atlantic and even included a demonstration of a rare surviving Enigma machine.

Among the audience were three ladies who worked at Bletchley Park during the war – Jean Pitt-Lewis and Pat Newton, of Monmouth, and visitor Betty Munday. They are three of the 12,000 or so employed there during the course of the war.

For full story see Beacon 24/08/11.