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hackneyed image of Turing dipping an apple into cyanide and committing suicide—‘all true’
the Spectator’s reviewer, journalist Sinclair McKay, assures readers.^20
In 2001 a bronze sculpture of Turing was installed in Manchester’s Sackville Park (Fig. 42.3):
he sits on a bench holding an apple. Inspired by Breaking the Code, the sculpture was unveiled on
23 June, Turing’s birthday. Stephen Kettle’s slate sculpture of Turing, which stands in Bletchley
Park’s Block B, has already been mentioned in Chapter 19 (see Fig. 19.3).^21 The slate came from
North Wales, where Turing visited as a child and adult. There are other memorial sculptures
and busts of Turing around the world. Figure 42.4 shows one located far away from Turing’s
home: this large bust, perhaps not immediately recognizable as Turing, stands outside the com-
puter science department at Southwest University in Chongqing, China.
Turing appears on a number of postage stamps, from places as far apart as Portugal, Tatarstan
(on the railway line from Moscow to Siberia), and Guinea in West Africa. Two special-edition
UK stamps in 2014 depicted Turing and the bombe, while an earlier UK stamp from 2012 dis-
played the words ‘Alan Turing 1912–1954 Mathematician and WWII code breaker’, together
with a picture of the rebuilt bombe (see Fig. 19.2).^22 An event even more improbable than the
issuing of a Turing stamp by St Helena—the tiny volcanic island in the South Atlantic where
Napoleon was imprisoned—was the (Google-funded) release in 2012 of a Turing version of the
popular Monopoly board game. Bletchley Park replaces Mayfair, and instead of the usual houses
and hotels are Huts and Blocks. Locations round the board include Bletchley Train Station,
Warrington Crescent (Turing’s birthplace), Hut 8, and the National Physical Laboratory, while
the usual Income Tax and Super Tax squares become War Tax and Bury Gold Bullion. Better
still, the original version of the Turing board was designed by Max Newman’s son William:
Turing actually played William on the prototype board—and lost, the story goes.
figure 42.3 Turing in bronze, sitting on a park bench in Sackville Park, Manchester.
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