On the 71st anniversary of Alan Turing taking his life this past weekend, l put out a comment on NextDoor which had an amazing response from local residents. 

He was born in Little Venice, in a property along Warrington Crescent W9 in 1912, as the blue plaque above indicates. The comment l put out had the following simply statement

“Alan Turing killed himself today, 71 years ago. Born along Warrington Crescent,W9 in #LittleVenice a Great Hero of World War II. There should really be a statue for him in Central London, particularly after what he suffered at the end of his life under the state.”

and got over 8,000 views over the weekend, 150 approvals and more than 50 odd comments. 

Please see attached link https://nextdoor.co.uk/post_insights/WjPDFFQ6QwXD/ to see the response summary and individual comments. 

So if anyone is interested in getting a statue put up for this local hero in and around the blue plaque or further into City of Westminster, get in touch with myself. 

In the meantime we’ll get a local petition going  and local Councillor Sara Hossain on board with the proposal, so as we can get the local council on side. After that we start approaching local businesses and London figures to support this effort for a true war hero.