Mémorial Alan Turing

Le Mémorial Alan Turing (en anglais : Alan Turing Memorial), créé à la mémoire du mathématicien, cryptologue et pionnier de l'informatique moderne Alan Turing, est situé dans Sackville Park à Manchester, en Angleterre. Turing est soupçonné de s'être suicidé en 1954, deux ans après avoir été reconnu coupable d'homosexualité. En tant que tel, il est autant une icône gay qu'une icône de l'informatique, ce n'est donc pas hasard que ce mémorial soit situé près de Canal Street, le quartier gay de Manchester, et de l'université de Manchester. Conçu par Richard Humphry, le mémorial est une sculpture d'Alan Turing assis sur un banc et tenant une pomme. Sur la plaque au sol est inscrit « Father of computer science, mathematician, logician, wartime codebreaker, victim of prejudice », suivi d’une célèbre citation de Bertrand Russell sur la beauté mathématique : « Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere like that of sculpture ». Il est dévoilé le 23 juin 2001, pour l'anniversaire de Turing.

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Cube Gallery

The CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built Environment) Gallery on Portland Street, in Manchester city centre, England, was a gallery for architecture and the built environment. It hosted regular exhibitions featuring mostly photography and architectural models (but also multimedia). It also contained a RIBA bookshop selling books on architecture, the built environment, planning, and other forms of design. CUBE was supported through the University of Salford's School of the Built Environment but closed in October 2013 as funding was withdrawn.

Palace Theatre, Manchester

The Palace Theatre is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England. It is situated on Oxford Street, on the north-east corner of the intersection with Whitworth Street. The Palace and its sister theatre the Opera House on Quay Street are operated by the same parent company, Ambassador Theatre Group. The original capacity of 3,675 has been reduced to its current 1,955.

Guardian telephone exchange

Guardian Exchange was an underground telephone exchange built in Manchester from 1954 to 1957. It was built together with the Anchor exchange in Birmingham and the Kingsway exchange in London – all believed to provide hardened communications in the event of nuclear war; as well as linking the UK government in London to the US Government in Washington, D.C. by means of a secure and hardened transatlantic telephone cable making landfall near Oban and running through Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham. Today, the underground site is used for telephone cabling. Constructed at a depth of below 35 metres (115 ft), the tunnels are about 2 metres (80 in) in diameter. The exchange cost around £4 million (approximately £126 million in 2015 prices), part of which was funded by the United Kingdom's NATO partners.

Kimpton Clocktower Hotel

The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel is a historic commercial building, now a hotel, at the corner of Oxford Street and Whitworth Street in Manchester, England. The Grade II* listed building was originally constructed in segments from 1891 to 1932 as the Refuge Assurance Building.

Rafters (nightclub)

Rafters, later known as Jilly's, was a nightclub located in St. James Buildings, Oxford Street, Manchester, England. Some well-known bands played concerts at Rafters in the 1970s and 1980s. Rob Gretton, who went on to become the manager of Joy Division, worked at Rafters. The club was featured in the biographical film Control (2007).