Maida Vale
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Maida Vale is an affluent residential district in Central London, England, north of Paddington, southwest of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn, on Edgware Road. It is part of the City of Westminster
The Grand Union Canal at Little Venice
The canal junction at Little Venice
The Carlton Tavern (1921) is an example of 1920s architecture. The pub was demolished in 2015 but subsequently rebuilt following a community campaign and planning appeals.
Alan Turing
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Alan Mathison Turing was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He was highly influential in the development of theoretical comput
Maida Vale
…The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, lived within sight of this synagogue on Warrington Crescent. The pioneer of modern computing, Alan Turing, was born at what is now the Colonnade Hotel in Warrington Crescent. Maida Vale tube station was opened on 6 June 1915 on the Bakerloo line. Warwick…
Turing in 1951
English Heritage blue plaque in Maida Vale, London, marking Turing's birthplace in 1912
Turing at age 16, c. 1928 – c. 1929
Turing (seated second from left) in Cornwall, with fellow Shirburnians: Edwin Davis, John Bennett, Peter White, Peter Hogg (seated second from right), and Duncan Carse, in April 1930.