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 * ...that the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house?


 * ...that James Chadwick, who was later to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron, experimented with radioactive toothpaste during World War I?


 * ...that Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?


 * ...that the stables of Oakfield Manor have been used to house lions?

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