Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/8

...that after the Chester Town Hall (pictured) was officially opened in 1869 to replace an earlier building burnt down in 1862, another fire destroyed the council chamber in 1897?
...that St John the Evangelist's Church, Weston in Runcorn is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
...that the Rev. William Cotton, vicar of Frodsham, introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?