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 * ...that Thomas Aldersey (pictured) gave the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, now an educational charity, their first school?
 * ...that the Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere was the first major piece of open-air public sculpture to be erected in Cheshire?
 * ...that St John the Evangelist's Church in Runcorn is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
 * ...that the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 in Nantwich was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows?

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