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Alan Turing's birthplace, Warrington Crescent

The Maida Vale nursing home where Turing was born in 1912, now a hotel with a plaque on the front.

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Warrington Lodge was a nursing home when Alan Mathison Turing was born in it on 23 June 1912, his parents home from India; it is the Colonnade Hotel now, and the blue plaque went up in 1998. Turing's London work was at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington after the war, where he designed the ACE computer, but the codebreaking at Bletchley and the paper that defined computation were the achievements, and the pardon and the banknote came long after his death in 1954.

Where
2 Warrington Crescent, W9 1ER
Nearest station
Warwick Avenue · 2 min walk

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