LEARN how to crack codes and secret messages at an event demonstrating methods pioneered in the First and Second World Wars taking place the Almonry Heritage Centre next month.

The new event at the Evesham museum is aiming to show adults and children alike how to make, decipher and break codes and secret messages.

On the day of the event, Saturday, November 1, from 10am, the centre will be joined by one man and his pigeons who will show visitors how these birds were essential as a means of communication during the First World War, ensuring vital messages from the government made it to the front line.

There will even be a chance to send your own message via pigeon.

GCHQ will then be sending representatives from 1pm until 3pm teaching about codes and ciphers and bringing with them a genuine encryption machine.

Children will also be able to try their hand at creating secret messages on an encryption system from the Ancient Greeks.

Items on display will include original WWI codebooks, a pigeon parachute and decrypts from Bletchley Park.

Standard admission to the event takes place from 10am until 4pm.

For more information contact Tonia Collett on 01386 446944.