Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/14
- ...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?