William Royle's Memorial bench
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Image: © Gerald England Taken: 11 Mar 2017
An inscription on the back of this bench in Platt Fields Park reads: ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM ROYLE OF RUSHOLME 1924 William Royle wrote a History of Rusholme in 1905, updated in 1914. A PDF version is available at http://rusholmearchive.org/william-royle-his-1905-history-of-rusholme