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- Statue of John Platt
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Statue of Robert Ascroft Winston Churchill described the funding of the statue of Robert Ascroft in My Early Life: 'They made a subscription of more than £2,000, the bulk collected in very small sums, to set up a statue to him as ‘The Workers’ Friend’. They stipulated – and I thought it characteristic of these Lancashire operatives – that the money was not to go to anything useful; no beds at a hospital, no extensions to a library, no fountain even, just a memorial. They did not want, they said, to give a present to themselves.' (p. 233)