X Do I know Inspector Ernest Burslem. My secondposting was to Stalybridge in 1959 when the officewas full of Stalybridge Borough officers andBurslem above all hated the Cheshire Constabulary.He had taken up the option when Stalybridgeamalgamated with Cheshire to remain atStalybridge. For the seven years I spent under hiscommand I was only ever known by my collar number,names just did not exist with him. If he could beawkward then he would be. If you upset him thenyou would find yourself working nights. It was sobad that when an extra day off was granted he madesure that at the end of a seven week period youwould get a weekend off and at the end of the nextseven week period he gave you Saturday and Mondayoff with a night shift on the Sunday night!! Asyou probably know he joined the force on 22/3/1929and worked his way up to Inspector. He lived atNo1 (I think) Haig Place, Stalybridge. I'm notaware of any family apart from his wife who on oneoccasion had a slight problem when she stuck aknife into an electric toaster. I am not aware ofany photographs which were taken except for thosethat appeared in the Stalybridge Reporter when heled the annual parade at the commencement ofStalybridge Wakes. He was a man who knew his joband his knowledge of law was tremendous. It was asight worth watching in Magistrates court when hetook solicitors or barristers on at Criminal Law.He would just grind them into the floor. He wasalso successful representing police officers atdisciplinary hearings and managed to get severaloff. One thing about his ruthlessness thateveryone who served under him usually got promotedwhen they left Stalybridge. As a person he waslacking in humanity, as a policeman he was firstrate. He once wrote an article a copy of which isin the archives of Tameside Local Studies andArchive Centre, Aston under Lyne. It was writtenin 1957. Burslen E. Inspector. StalybridgeCorporation Centenary Souvenir. History of BoroughPolice Force, pages 128 - 133. (I have beenmeaning to phone them to see if they would send medetails of the article) My wife says that he had acaring attitude to families when officers wereaway from Stalybridge, he would send an officerround to check if everything was ok, not that hewould go himself. I still wake up havingnightmares of my time at Stalybridge!!!!!!!!!