The Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook

Memorial sculpture of Alan Turing
in Sackville Park, Manchester

The sculpture in Sackville Park, Manchester: Part 1

This page shows my pictures of the site of the Turing sculpture and its setting in central Manchester. You should refer to the home page of the project, written by the sculptor, Glyn Hughes, for more information about it. (I was not involved in the project myself.) Go on to the next page for my pictures of the unveiling on 23 June 2001.

Open this Street Map to see the location in Manchester.

This is the park, with the site of the Turing memorial announced in the centre by a placard. Ahead and to the right is UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology)...	...and to the left is another college. This was originally the Central School, a magnificent Manchester civic edifice as you can see from this sign on its side. I'm sure Alan Turing would have liked it overlooking his site.
Nowadays, men of any age can be boyz, which Turing would also have liked. The park is just across the canal from Canal Street, now the centre of Manchester's lesbian and gay scene, and one of the most concentrated gay-identified areas in Europe.	Also under construction is another memorial, a Beacon of Hope, for all who have lived and fought and died with AIDS. This is the view from the Via Fossa bar on Canal Street. The marker for the Turing site is visible in the centre-left of the picture.
This is another view of the canal, looking south. If you walk along here, it is only a short distance to the railway arches at Oxford Road station.	It was probably by these buildings that Alan Turing made his fateful pick-up in December 1951. This corner has not changed much in fifty years.
Now continue to see the unveiling of the sculpture on 23 June 2001.