User:Peter I. Vardy/DYK/Archive 3


 * ... 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 one of John Romney's etchings which sold well was of The Chester and Holyhead Railway Bridge Accident which occurred in 1847?
 * ... that St George's Church, Everton (pictured) and St Michael's Church, Aigburth were two of the three churches in Liverpool built by John Cragg which contained many cast iron components?
 * ... that All Saints' Church, Childwall (pictured) is the only medieval church in the metropolitan borough of Liverpool, Merseyside, England?
 * ...that the English landscape architect Edward Milner designed three public parks in Preston, Lancashire to give work to the unemployed in the cotton famine in the 1860s?
 * ...that the National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, in Cheshire, England, contains the largest collection of canal boats in the world?
 * ... that the Carnegie Library in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building?
 * ... that the Cheshire 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 the English architectural historian Edward Hubbard wrote the definitive biography of the Cheshire architect John Douglas, but died before it could be published?
 * ... that the medieval scheduled monuments of Cheshire include Vale Royal Abbey (pictured) which was the largest Cistercian church in England?
 * ... that for security reasons, the findings relating to uranium in John Holt's 1941 PhD thesis on artificial radioactivity were not released?
 * ... that in the 1930s Lady Olive Baillie held house parties at Leeds Castle, Kent, England, and her guests included the film stars Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, and Gertrude Lawrence?
 * ... that Chichester Castle was built in the Rape of Chichester in the 11th century?
 * ... that the architect John Douglas built Walmoor Hill in Chester, Cheshire, as a house for himself, and since his death it has been used as a girls’ college and as the County Fire Headquarters?
 * ... that John Douglas was an architect responsible for the 19th-century black-and-white revival in Chester, Cheshire?
 * ... that Christ Church, Rossett, North Wales (pictured) was designed in 1886 but not built until 1891–92?
 * ... that Hockenhull Platts, three bridges on a medieval road in Cheshire, England, were crossed in 1353 by the Black Prince, in 1698 by Celia Fiennes, and in 1780 by Thomas Pennant?
 * ... that St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, Wales, contains monuments to W. E. Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and his family?
 * ...that the first patron of St Mary's Church, Mold (pictured) was Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII?

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 * ... that the poet R. S. Thomas was rector of St Michael's Church, Manafon, (pictured) in Powys, Wales between 1942 and 1954?
 * ... that a new porch at St Matthew's Church, Buckley, Flintshire, Wales, (pictured) was paid for by the vicar's wife with money made from publishing letters to her from John Ruskin?
 * ... that one theory suggests that the unique Chester Rows (pictured) were constructed in the medieval era on top of debris from the ruins of Roman buildings?
 * ... that in Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, Cheshire, England, is a fireplace with an overmantle containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?
 * ... that when The Falcon (now a public house) (pictured) was a town house owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1643, it was the first building to enclose its portion of the Chester Rows?
 * ... that the building known as Three Old Arches in Chester, Cheshire, has a shop front which is considered to be the oldest in England?