Clock Tower and Tutte Traditional Cache
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The clock tower stands proudly at the top of the high street oer looking Newmarket. A short walk brings you to the Bill Tutte memorial
Clock Tower:The Newmarket Clock Tower is located at the top of the High Street. Local builder Richard Arber built it to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee of 1887. The tower was paid for by public subscription, but local trainer Charles Blanton donated the clock made by Smith of Derby Group. The clock tower was officially opened in 1890. It takes 115 turns to fully wind the clock every week Bill Tutte Memorial: Tutte was born in Newmarket , in 1917 and went to Cheveley School before progressing to Trinity at Cambridge. he graduated in 1938 with a first class degree in Chemistry. On the outbreak of war, his tutor suggested him for work at Bletchley Park, where he joined and worked in the research station. At first he worked on the Hagelin cipher that was being used by the Italian Navy. This was a rotor cipher machine that was available commercially, so the mechanics of enciphering was known, and decrypting messages only required working out how the machine was set up.
In the summer of 1941, Tutte was transferred to work on a teleprinter cipher system that had been dubbed "Tunny".[9] Telegraphy used the 5-bit International Telegraphy Alphabet No. 2 (ITA2). Other than that messages were preceded by a 12-letter indicator, which implied a 12-wheel rotor cipher machine, nothing was known about the mechanism of enciphering. The first step, therefore, had to be to diagnose the machine by establishing the logical structure and hence the functioning of the machine. Tutte played a pivotal role in achieving this, and it was not until shortly before the allied victory in Europe in 1945, that Bletchley Park acquired a Tunny Lorenz cipher machine. Tutte's breakthroughs led eventually to bulk decrypting of Tunny-enciphered messages between German High Command (OKW) in Berlin and their army commands throughout occupied Europe, that played a crucial part in shortening the war. After the war he completed a doctorate in mathematics at Cambridge before moving to Canada to work in University of Waterloo. He returned to Newmarket after his wife died in 1996, but returned to Canada in 2000, shortly before his death in 2002. The people of Newmarket celebrated his life and work in 2014 by unveiling this tribute to him
A highly muggle area so stealth required, as well as tweezers! Helpful map nearby that will help those unfamilair with Newmarket to find their way round. Plenty of low cost parking nearby too.
I found this additional info that was in a local paper at the time of the memorial being unveiled: "In a touching irony, the memorial, in the centre of Newmarket, stands almost exactly on the spot where Bill Tutte's father had worked as gardener growing vegetables for the adjacent Hotel. Rather than create a traditional sculpture, perhaps of Bill Tutte hiking through the countryside (his favourite past-time), a team including sculptor Harry Gray (photo 7), Ramon Keeley and Leon Russell has created what many consider to be a fine work of modern art. The installation resonates with references to Bill Tutte and his work. Six seven-feet high stainless steel panels pierced with holes represent the punched paper tape that the Lorenz messages were converted into to enable the deciphering process. In front of the panels, a 41-tooth rotor represents Tutte's breakthrough in determining the structure of the Lorenz machine. Inside the rotor is a quotation from the citation for Tutte's membership of the Order of Canada (his post-war adopted home) written in a way that is difficult to decipher. Six bollards resemble teleprinter tape passing over a spool and each bears Tutte's name on one side and encrypted messages on the other. Visitors are invited to crack the messages."
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Vg'f faht urer....V'z ynhtuvat yvxr bar!