Alan Turing, 1912 - 1954, code breaker, lived here from 1945 - 1947.
TW12, Hampton High Street, 78, Ivy House
Turing lived here while working at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, on the other side of Bushy Park.
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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Alan Turing - Hampton
Mathematician, computer scientist and war-shortener. Born Alan Mathison Turin...
Clissold Crescent was part of the Willow Estate, whose history is well-covered at Local Local History, but Brooks is not mentioned there....
The architects of the 1933 building were Mewes & Davis (inscribed on a stone near the entrance), and of the 1964 building, Julian Sof...
The plaque is on the side of the building in South Street. On the west facade of this building, above an entrance door, there is a crest...
On a cluttered wall, the plaque is the lower one on the right.
Identical plaques are on both northbound and southbound platforms of the Northern line.
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