Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/1

...that Runcorn Town Hall (pictured) was originally built as Halton Grange, a mansion for Thomas Johnson, a local soap and alkali manufacturer?
...that St Stephen's Church in Macclesfield Forest still practises a rush-bearing ceremony, largely abandoned in the 17th century?
...that English author Selina Davenport, in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school?
...that in Bishop Lloyd's House, Chester, is a fireplace with an overmantel containing a carving of Cupid riding on a lion?

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