24 | 2 THE mAN wITH THE TERRIBlE TROUSERS
and his wearing a pyjama jacket under his sports coat. My grandmother was still forlornly try-
ing to get him to tidy himself up:^2
He lived at the Crown Inn, Shenley Brook End, some three miles out of Bletchley. Here his kind
landlady, Mrs Ramshaw, took great care of him and generally mothered him and admonished
him about his clothes. Someone on the staff at Bletchley Park reported to a relative of ours that
Alan was ‘wrapped up in his theories and wild as to hair and clothes and conventions, but a dear
fellow’. Alan himself deplored the shabby clothes of some other people at Bletchley Park and
complained that they wore them ‘not even patched’. It was, of course [she reminds us] the time
when clothing coupons restricted outlay on clothes.
figure 2.4 Julius Turing (Alan’s father) and Alan in Guildford in 1938; Julius has a distinct crease in his trousers.
Reproduced with permission from Beryl Turing.