Sackville Gardens
Leafy square with a bronze statue of Alan Turing on a bench bearing an Enigma-style coded motto.
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This guide to Sackville Gardens in Manchester sits you beside the bronze Alan Turing on his bench and turns to the string of coded letters cast into the seat next to him. It follows sculptor Glyn Hughes, the Enigma machine Turing helped defeat, and the planning papers in the city archives that hold more than one version of the message. Along the way it reaches back to Turing's conviction in nineteen fifty-two. Stand at the end of the bench where you can read both the code and the plaque at his feet.
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