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I was in Manchester for the day for a work meeting.

Wandering over from Piccadilly to the universities, I stumbled across Alan Turing in Sackville Gardens.

"The Alan Turing statue was unveiled on 23rd June 2001 on the 89th anniverary of Alan Turing's birth.

Turing has been depicted by sculptor Glyn Hughes as a scruffily dressed, ordinary man, holding an apple. The apple represents Newton, the tree of knowledge and forbidden love as well as being a reminder of Turing's death. Hughes buried his old Amstrad computer under the plinth as a tribute to the "godfather of all modern computers." "