Maps & Secret Services

Our professor Vittorio Marchis  suggested to find a carthography which was coherent with our blog theme and so I've founded not one but three maps, two of which are complementary, that in my opinion are a resumè of what my blog represents:

The first map describe the Organization of the buildings in Bletchley Park in different operating areas, meanwhile the second one depict the pattern followed by not yet analyzed messages

In the link below you can find a google map which illustrates the different positions assumed, in the course of time, by the SIS' Headquartes, the neuralgic centre of all inteligence operations. Londonhttps://maps.google.it/maps/ms?msid=210910011879806218578.0004dc6e3a581c0ae61ba&msa=0

64 Victoria Street - 1909

Ashley Mansions - 1909 'till 1911

Whitehall Court - 1911 'tll 1919

Melbury Road - 1919 'till 1926

Broadway Building - 1926 'till 1964

Century House - 1964 'till 1994

Vauxhall Cross (HQ) - 1994 'till present day

Curiosity: SIS HQ features in several Bond films, like GoldenEye, The World is Not Enough, Die Another Day and Skyfall.  The production company, Eon Productions, filmed several sequences outside Vauxhall Cross in cooperation with SIS.  The most impressive involved an explosion which causes a large hole in the side of the building and a speed boat launching into the Thames, this was actually filmed using a 50 foot high model of Vauxhall Cross constructed at Pinewood Studios.

The argument of this post is related to the ones contained in The Art in the Agency and in SIS, aka MI6...A little bit of History.

Source:

https://www.sis.gov.uk/our-history/buildings.html