X-Nico

unusual facts about listening station



Beaumanor Hall

The park became a secret listening station where encrypted enemy signals (Morse code) were intercepted and sent to the famous Station X at Bletchley Park (by motorbike everyday) for decoding.


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Judica-Cordiglia brothers

Achille (b.Turin, 1933) and his brother Giovanni Battista (b.Erba, 1939) set up their own experimental listening station just outside of Turin in the late 1950s.

The Whistle Blower

His bright but naive and idealistic son, Robert (Nigel Havers), works as a linguist at GCHQ a top secret British intelligence listening station, using his love of Russian to listen to various pieces of communication on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

Woodhouse, Leicestershire

Beaumanor Hall, ancestral home of the Herrick family, was used as a listening station during the war.