Alan Turing Memorial

The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in in , UK, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Turing is believed to have taken his own life in 1954, two years after being convicted of gross indecency.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: memorial in Manchester, England
  • Also known as: “Alan Turing Statue”
  • Inscription: “Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954 Father of Computer Science, Mathematician, Logician, Wartime Codebreaker, Victim of Prejudice.”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sackville Gardens and Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station.

Park
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is a public space in , England. It is bounded by 's Shena Simon Campus on one side and Whitworth Street, Sackville Street, the and Canal Street on the others.

Railway station
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Manchester Piccadilly is the main railway station of the city of , in the metropolitan county of , England. Opened originally as Store Street in 1842, it was renamed Manchester London Road in 1847 and became Manchester Piccadilly in 1960. is situated 1,300 feet east of Alan Turing Memorial.

Art gallery
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, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on in , England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. is situated 1,400 feet northwest of Alan Turing Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piccadilly-East Centre and Chinatown.

Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the area in that covers Chinatown, the Gay Village, and Piccadilly Gardens. It is bounded by the A57, Oxford Road, and the A62.

Neighborhood
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in , England, is the second largest in the and the third largest in Europe. Its archway was completed in 1987 on Faulkner Street in , which contains Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Nepali, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants, shops, bakeries and supermarkets.

Neighborhood
Circle Square is an area of City Centre on Oxford Road, in North West England. Circle square is a 2.4 million sq ft development of commercial buildings, residential, retail, leisure space and a large public realm.

Alan Turing Memorial

Latitude
53.47673° or 53° 28′ 36″ north
Longitude
-2.23596° or 2° 14′ 10″ west
Inception
June 23rd, 2001
Open location code
9C5VFQG7+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1295097482
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q3736114
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Highlights include UCEN Manchester (Shena Simon Campus) and Shena Simon Campus.

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