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The following items are currently featured, or have featured in the past, in the Did you know... section of the Cheshire Portal:

... that Runcorn Town Hall (pictured) was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer?
...that under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?
...that the gates of Warrington Town Hall, Cheshire, erected in 1895, had been shown at the 1862 International Exhibition in London?
...that the Tegg's Nose Country Park in Cheshire has a collection of historical quarrying equipment (pictured) recalling its history of quarrying dating back to the 16th century?
...that while Peover Hall in Cheshire, England, is a Grade II* listed building, its stable block is listed Grade I because of its elaborate internal architecture?
...that Chorley Old Hall, the oldest inhabited country house in Cheshire, consists of two ranges, one medieval (c.1300), the other Elizabethan (mid-16th century)?
...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?
...that listed buildings in Peckforton include a carved stone elephant bearing a replica of a medieval castle?
...that when Catalyst museum (pictured) in Widnes was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry?
...that during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?
...that Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire?
...that when Chester Cathedral (pictured) was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century, its exterior was almost completely recased in Runcorn sandstone?
...that David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party?
...that St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
...that much of medieval Chester Castle (pictured) was rebuilt in neoclassical style by architect Thomas Harrison around 1800?
...that Oakmere Hall was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
...that although Peckforton Castle was built as a family home in 1850, it mimicked a Norman castle in design and position?
...that listed structures in the parish of Acton in Cheshire include an aqueduct (pictured), sundial, icehouse, clock tower, telephone box and a statue of a dog upsetting a food bowl?
...that St Mary's Church, Widnes has a wayside pulpit incorporated into its boundary wall?
...that after the Chester Town Hall (pictured) was officially opened in 1869 in Chester, England 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, Runcorn, Cheshire is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
...that Rev William Cotton, vicar of Frodsham, Cheshire, introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?
...that Christ Church in Macclesfield (pictured) was built by Charles Roe for the Rev. David Simpson, because he had been denied a curacy in another church?
...that the 1673 history of Cheshire by Sir Peter Leycester (pictured) questioned Amicia Mainwaring's legitimacy, leading to a "paper war" of 15 pamphlets with the Mainwaring family?
...that Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms, William Dugdale, travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670 to destroy them?
...that St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II?
...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
..that St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton (pictured) is one of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe?
...that Churche's Mansion, Nantwich, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1583, bears a carved salamander, a traditional protection against fire?
...that William Gaskell, husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, was a pioneer in the education of the working classes?
...that St Peter's Church, Plemstall is built on the site of a hermitage occupied by Plegmund who was later the Archbishop of Canterbury?
...that lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower (pictured), probably the oldest surviving shot tower in the world?
...that British television programmes including Cluedo and The Forsythe Saga were partly filmed at Arley Hall in Cheshire?
...that All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire has stained glass panels depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland?
...that George Ormerod, an English antiquary and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?
...that The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
...that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
...that Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers?
...that the Round Tower in Sandiway, Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey?
...that the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer?

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