Some of the comments from readers of the featured case study, the Bletchley Park Times:

You certainly set the bar high”

Dr Simon Greenish MBE, ex CEO of Bletchley Park

You’ve done a magnificent job with the magazine and I look forward to receiving and reading the publication – cover to cover”

Jay Browne, Cryptolog magazine

I think personally that what you have done was an excellent job”

Paul Croxson – Chicksands Museum

You have been professional and a first class editor. I have always been so grateful for your support and appreciated our relationship”

Mavis Batey MBE – ex Bletchley Park code breaker and English garden historian

I have indeed happy recollections of the things we worked on together for the Bletchley Park Times”

Edward Simpson – ex Bletchley Park code breaker

We would like to thank you for your splendid service to Bletchley Park for such a long time. We always love to read the magazine – it was well designed and a good read”

Captain Jerry Roberts MBE – ex Bletchley Park code breaker from the Testery

You have produced a top quality magazine”

Ian Munro – ex Bletchley Park volunteer

Bletchley Park had to broaden its contacts and to change its style. In particular, there had to be a more positive and focussed approach to marketing and to publicity, [Simon] Greenish set out his plans in a new publication which was for more than an in-house journal, the Bletchley Park Times, which appeared twice a year. He found the right man to edit it, Philip Le Grand ….. who chose its name and shaped its content, setting out deliberately and imaginatively to broaden its appeal.

The Friends of Bletchley Park had printed a newsletter since 2003, … but the Bletchley Park Times was to do something different. In the words of Le Grand it would ‘reflect the various times or ages of Bletchley Park – Past, Present and Future’.

Greenish and Le Grand were of one mind and one will and they both appreciated the value of media interest in the Park and the publication of stories about it. In the spring 2009 issue of Bletchley Park Times Greenish commended and thanked Le Grand for all the work he was putting into the publication. Feedback was always positive.

[A few years later] ‘to reflect the increased publicity and public attention, the Bletchley Park Times   would have a slight redesign to make the magazine more commercial so that it could go on sale , as well as providing it for the Friends [of the Park]’. It was more than slight. The by then old cover had incorporated  several ‘items of Bletchley Park, including the Mansion, the goose that laid the Golden Eggs, a Bombe menu and rotor and paper tape used by Colossus’. In the autumn of 2009 it gave way to a new cover with a whole page illustration and a headline printed in block capitals. ‘The Griffins Return’.”

Lord Asa Briggs – ex Code Breaker wrote in his book ‘Secret Days – Code-Breaking in Bletchley Park’, published by Frontline Books