Railway Viaduct and Peel House
It is hard to believe that
these two pictures of the railway viaduct were taken about 100 years
apart.
The building on the left is 'Peel House' and was one of the first police stations in Surrey. It dates to the 1850's (Surrey's police force had been founded in 1851). I understand that the building had initially been a single storey lock-up but was extended upwards to provide accommodation.
John Coombs wrote :
0n speaking to my Mother the other evening on the telephone, we were talking about Bagshot and its history - we lived in Bagshot for most of our lives, indeed I was born there in Bagshot Nurseing Home on the A30. She relayed this little story to me. Apparently back in the 1800's her grandmother used to live in Peel House (named after Robert Peel, the founder of the Police force). As a young girl, her grandmother would play in the unattended cells and sometimes sleep in them with her friends. My mother believes her grandmother's parents were the first 'occupiers' of Peel House as her husband was a 'Peeler' to the area. [Jan 14 xx]
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