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Originally Posted by Gayle Knight
What about Robert Peel. Wasn't he local? He started the police force, didn't he - isn't that why they're called Bobbies?
You'd have thought the Victorians would have put up a statue for him.
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Errrrrrrrrr...No. Robert Peel was from Bury. His grandfather was from Church/Ossy. Interestingly, though, the Town Hall was originally built as the Peel Institute (otherwise known as the Mechanics Institute), and that was in its way a memorial to Robert Peel (politician). There are numerous statues to Peel around the country, the best known one being in Tamworth, Staffs.