Major Funding Boost for the Peel Museum

The Peel Society is pleased to announce that it has received £7,700 in Heritage Lottery funding to pay for improvements to its Middleton Hall museum. These funds have been match-funded by the Society membership to the tune of £1350.

The sponsorship will pay for better artefact storage facilities, upgraded security, more display cases, with integral lighting, and best of all a new media screen. This latter will be installed in the book room on the ground floor where all ages and sizes will be able to see a comprehensive show of the museum artefacts as well as telling the story of the seven Robert Peels including Sir Robert Peel V’s  marriage to Beatrice Lilly.

The Peel Museum at Middleton Hall has undergone a complete transformation in the last two years. There are now many more artefacts on display explaining the political achievements of Sir Robert Peel (1788 – 1850). He is famous for establishing the modern policing system by passing the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. When he died in 1850, twenty statues were erected in his memory, including the one in Tamworth because he had sacrificed his political career in 1846 to pass the Repeal of the Corn Laws, which reduced the price of bread for the working classes by abolishing import duties on food.

The Peel Society is indebted to the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Peel Society membership for making this transformation possible.