X Robert TURNOCKDear Gill,First off I want to say a very big thank you fortaking the time and going to the expense that youhave done in supplying the photographs, and ofcourse the cheque, it truly is very muchappreciated.It is just a pity that we don't have a photographof Robert because I have an idea that I will putto the next Museum Committee, I am alsoresponsible for making all the medal displayswithin the Museum and we do have some wonderfulmedals including an Albert Medal awarded to one ofour former Chief Constables. So I am going to putit to the Committee that we buy a replica set ofmedals/bars awarded to Robert together with a capbadge and his police record all within a frame anddisplay it., if we had a photo that would havebeen the icing on the cake, in particular like theone of the Hyde officer, which is also pity wedon't have his name either. But if you haveanything written down about Robert and the placeswhere he received the bars I would appreciate itand I could use this in his write up.I have a feeling that the photograph of the man isin fact a Cheshire Police Officer basicallybecause at the time he would be serving in SouthAfrica the Hyde Borough Police was only just beingformed in 1899, and many of the Cheshire PoliceOfficers who were stationed within that Divisionwhen it was part of Cheshire did in fact continuetheir service with Hyde Borough Police when it wasformed, but sadly Hyde Borough Police records arenonexistent. I am able to search our database forthose officers that did serve in South Africa butHyde was one of the biggest Divisions in theCounty and the officer could have served withinany of the 11 Sub Divisions of Hyde.Today Saturday I have spoken with the Curator ofthe Museum and he has authorised me to purchasethe two replica medals that Robert was awarded, Ihave just researched them on the net and they arethere with the exact same bars for £27, which isreally good news. So when I have completed thepresentation I will photograph it and forward youa copy. I have added a photograph of the sort ofpresentation I do to and that hangs in the Museum(6).Down to the photographs, sadly Hyde Police Stationis one of the Police Stations we don't have aphotograph of. Photograph (1) is Winsford PoliceStation where Robert would have walked in and outof daily, when facing the photograph the left sideof the building was the Station the right handside was the Stations Sergeants home. Although thestation still stands it has had numerousextensions and has recently been turned into 6flats.I have been out this morning with my digitalcamera hoping to find number 26 Swanlow Lane,sadly it has well and truly disappeared, thehouses now start at number 30, which is reallyfrustrating. So I visited the home a localhistorian who has written a number of books onWinsford Town. He related that number 26 was infact one of two cottages more or less in front ofthe local Congregational Church, and the producedtwo pictures more or less the same, showing thecottages saying that the properties weredemolished in the 1960's. Truly from looking atthose pictures and others the area has changedbeyond all recognition. I in fact did not arrivein Winsford until I came out of the Army in 1975,and then joined the Police and Winsford being myvery 1st Police posting as a uniform officer.Photographs (4) and (5) again show pictures ofAltrincham and Middlewich Stations again wereRobert served. It truly is a pity you don't have acomputer/internet there are some wonderfulpictures of Winsford on there. But I also have toapologise for the photographs these have beentaken from various sources including digitalpictures but no original photographs, in otherwords we have received them as copies of copies ofcopies and on and on, so we could not reproducethem on photographic paper but I have laminatedthem and I don't think they look to bad.Sincere best wishesJim Talbot.