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Runcorn Town Hall


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Teggs Nose quarry

  • ...that the Tegg's Nose Country Park has a collection of historical quarrying equipment (pictured) recalling its history of quarrying dating back to the 16th century?

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Rev. William Cotton, by Margaret Carpenter (1832)


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St John the Evangelist's Church, Sandiway


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Chester Castle


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Statue, attributed to Pierre Louis Rouillard, depicting a mastiff and puppies


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Chester Town Hall


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Christ Church, Macclesfield


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Peter Leycester


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Memorial board in St Mary's Church, Thornton-le-Moors


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Crown Inn, Nantwich


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Hall Caine, by RE Morrison


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Advertisement for Hudson's soap


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Entrance to Carnegie Library, Runcorn


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Ruins of Rocksavage c. 1818


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116 Hospital Street, Nantwich

  • ...that the manor of Nether Tabley, including Tabley Old Hall and Tabley House, was owned by the Leicester family for almost exactly 700 years?

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God's Providence House, Chester


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Page from the Lyme Caxton Missal


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Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich


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Marsh helleborine


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Sankey Canal and Sankey Brook

  • ...that in 1663, Roger Wilbraham organised the replacement of Nantwich Bridge, and the new bridge was completed in time for his son to be the first corpse carried across it?

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Portrait of John Hunter Littler by Stephen Pearce


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Photograph of a three-storey black-and-white shop building on an angle in the street.


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Statue of Ludwig Mond
Statue of Ludwig Mond
  • ...that the statues of Ludwig Mond (pictured) and John Brunner stand next to each other in the grounds of the factory they founded?

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Former malt kiln near Sound


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Tollemache Almshouses, Nantwich


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Risley Moss

  • ...that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?

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A man standing, wearing a red and white cloak, and white trousers and stockings


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Lychgate at St Michael's, Marbury


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A red-brick building with two storeys, five bays and a central triangular pediment

  • ...that 9 Mill Street (pictured) in Nantwich dates from 1736, and has been a house, a bank, a political club and a restaurant?

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Caryatid on corbel from 46 High Street, Nantwich


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Methodist Church, Nantwich


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Thomas Aldersey by Robert Peake the elder (1588)
Thomas Aldersey by Robert Peake the elder (1588)

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39 Welsh Row, Nantwich
39 Welsh Row, Nantwich

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Wilbraham's Almshouses, Nantwich


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Queen's Aid House, Nantwich


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St John's Church, High Legh
St John's Church, High Legh

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Dutton Horse Bridge
Dutton Horse Bridge

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Phoenix Tower, Chester
Phoenix Tower, Chester

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The Duchess of Cambridge posing in her wedding dress after her marriage to Prince William
The Duchess of Cambridge posing in her wedding dress after her marriage to Prince William

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Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rosalind Howard, Countess of Carlisle, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • ...that Lady Carlisle (pictured) so adamantly opposed alcohol consumption that when her daughter married a brewer, she refused to speak with her for years?
  • ...that the 19th-century Shrigley Hall, originally a country house, was later a Salesian school with a chapel added in 1936, and now is a hotel and country club?
  • ...that the pulpit in Christ Church, Barnton has been described as "Puginesquely elaborate"?
  • ...that a plaque on Phoenix Tower in Chester states that King Charles I stood on the tower in 1645 as he watched his soldiers being defeated at Rowton Moor?

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St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth
St Mary and All Saints' Church, Great Budworth

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Wrenbury Church Bridge
Wrenbury Church Bridge

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Sweetbriar Hall, Nantwich
Sweetbriar Hall, Nantwich

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Henrietta Stanley
Henrietta Stanley

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St Mary's and St Michael's Church, Burleydam


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Abbot's House, Combermere Abbey
Abbot's House, Combermere Abbey

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Addleshaw Tower, Chester
Addleshaw Tower, Chester

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Former Congregational Chapel, Monks Lane, Nantwich
Former Congregational Chapel, Monks Lane, Nantwich

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Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster
Statue of Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster

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Norcliffe Chapel, Styal
Norcliffe Chapel, Styal

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Obelisk Commemorating Roger Barnston
Obelisk Commemorating Roger Barnston

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Miniature of Elizabeth Gaskell by William John Thomson (1832)
Miniature of Elizabeth Gaskell by William John Thomson (1832)

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Chester War Memorial
Chester War Memorial

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Garden front of Capesthorne Hall
Garden front of Capesthorne Hall

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Detail from Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772-78) by Johann Zoffany, showing Wilbraham (probably on the left) admiring the statue of the Venus de' Medici
Detail from Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772-78) by Johann Zoffany, showing Wilbraham (probably on the left) admiring the statue of the Venus de' Medici

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New Cheshire Salt Works in 1986

  • ...that the family-run New Cheshire Salt Works (pictured) was said to have had a "magnificent" Art Deco vacuum evaporator, decorated with stripes of different-coloured woods?
  • ...that Maria Elizabetha Jacson was wary of offending her society's conventions by writing about sexual classification?
  • ...that Kris Leonard, vocalist of the band Viola Beach, commented that the lyrical content of their songs was inspired by their "very grey and industrial" hometown of Warrington?
  • ...that the Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937, has been described as "the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings"?

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Gable of the Chantry House, Bunbury


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Brine pump at Warmingham

  • ...that the dairy-farming area of Warmingham is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK?
  • ...that the 12th-century manuscript De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
  • ...that although Peckforton Castle was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position?
  • ...that the scandalous life of Teresia Constantia Phillips was published in eighteen parts?

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Sculpture of the Lovell Telescope
Sculpture of the Lovell Telescope

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Ball Farmhouse, Hankelow


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