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...that Roger Wilbraham (pictured on left) probably admired the Venus de' Medici statue in the 1770s?
...that the oldest memorial in All Saints' Church, Runcorn, is dedicated to two women, "both good wives"?
...that when the public house The Falcon 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 of the 31 listed buildings in Crewe, only two date from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?

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