30 Apr 2020

Carers have been renamed as key workers but they need more pay, says Bletchley Park veteran

Elizabeth Diacon, 97, who lives in a Wiltshire care home, was one of the women who worked at the government’s codebreaking headquarters, Bletchley Park, during the Second World War. 

Elizabeth Diacon, 97, who lives in a Wiltshire care home, was one of the women who worked at the government’s codebreaking headquarters, Bletchley Park, during the Second World War.

We asked her how living in a sensitive place like Bletchley during the war compared with living under the threat of the coronavirus.