Manchester

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Alan Turing Memorial

Sackville Park, Sackville Street.

Turing, a hero of the World War II Bletchley Park codebreakers, came to and helped found one of the world’s first computers (a copy of which can be seen in the Museum of Science & Industry,. His story ended tragically – he committed suicide in 1954, two years after his arrest for a then-illegal homosexual relationship. This statue, unveiled in 2001, sits at the heart of the city’s gay village.

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