Alan Turing Memorial
Bronze statue of a seated codebreaker on a bench inscribed with an Enigma-style cipher.
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This guide to the Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester's Sackville Gardens starts with the coded letters cast into the bronze bench and the motto they are said to spell. It follows Turing to the University of Manchester's Computing Machine Laboratory after the war, through thinking machines and the patterns of growing things, and into his prosecution in nineteen fifty-two. Stand close enough to the bench to read the letters.
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