Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/3
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- ...that after Crewe Hall (pictured) was gutted by fire in 1866, E. M. Barry was employed to restore it to a facsimile of the Jacobean original?
- ...that the creation of Grosvenor Museum, Chester was inspired by a society formed by Charles Kingsley, then a canon of Chester Cathedral?
- ...that St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest still practises a rush-bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century?
