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...that the Carnegie Library (pictured) in Runcorn was designed in 1906 by the local council's surveyor and water engineer and is now a listed building?
...that 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 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 Bridgemere Garden World, now one of the largest garden centres in Europe, started as "a little garden shed in a small field" in 1961?

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