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 * ...that the Carnegie Library (pictured) in Runcorn was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building?
 * ...that landowner Rowland Egerton-Warburton arranged for his house, Arley Hall, to be designed in Tudor style while the chapel was designed in Gothic style?
 * ...that two trains returning from the 1851 Chester races lost adhesion in Sutton Tunnel, and a third crashed into them, killing nine and injuring up to 40 people?
 * ...that Bridgemere Garden World, now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?

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