User:Peter I. Vardy/DYK/Archive 1


 * ...that the Round Tower in Sandiway, Cheshire, was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey?
 * ...that Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers?
 * ...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 the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built very rapidly in 1855 enabling heavy ammunition to be transported to the Allied troops to end the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War?
 * ...that The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
 * ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquarian and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?
 * ...that All Saints' Church in Daresbury, Cheshire has stained glass panels (pictured) depicting characters from Alice in Wonderland?
 * ...that British television programmes including Cluedo and The Forsythe Saga were partly filmed at Arley Hall
 * ...St Peter's Church, Plemstall in Cheshire, England, is built on the site of a hermitage occupied by Plegmund who was later the Archbishop of Canterbury?
 * ..that St James' and St Paul's Church, Marton (pictured) in Cheshire, England, is one of the oldest timber-framed churches in Europe?
 * ...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 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 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 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 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 St Mary's Church in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England, a Grade I listed building, was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
 * ...that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?
 * ...that St. Thomas' Church, Mellor (pictured) contains a pulpit which is the oldest wooden pulpit in England, and possibly in the world?
 * ...that when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey, England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?
 * ...that there are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester?
 * ...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 St Barnabas' Church (pictured), completed in Bromborough, England in 1864, has been called a "well-designed example of the work" of its architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott?
 * ...that in the churchyard of Morwenstow Church is the preserved figurehead of the Scottish brig The Caledonia, which was shipwrecked nearby in 1843?
 * ...that St Mary's Church, Widnes has a wayside pulpit (pictured) incorporated into its boundary wall?