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 * ...that the ornate Jacobean Revival-style 39 Welsh Row (pictured) in Nantwich was built as a humble savings bank?
 * ...that when Catalyst museum in Widnes was opened in 1989, it was the world's first museum devoted to the chemicals industry?
 * ...that Sir Oliver Starkey was the only English knight present at the siege of Malta and is the only person to be buried in the crypt of Valletta Cathedral who was not a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller?
 * ...that Stanley Palace in Chester, built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments, a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms?

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