Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/7

...that after the Chester Town Hall (pictured) was officially opened in 1869 to replace an earlier building burnt down in 1862, another fire destroyed the council chamber in 1897?
...that English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
...that John Thomson served for 55 years as the schoolmaster of Nantwich Blue Cap School and the school closed some six months after his retirement aged 86 or 87?
...that the Port of Runcorn was an independent customs port for two separate periods before becoming part of the Port of Manchester in 1894?

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