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Hall Caine, by RE Morrison

...that The Christian by Hall Caine (pictured), published in 1897, was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
...that St Mary's Church, Widnes, has a wayside pulpit incorporated into its boundary wall?
...that the creation of Grosvenor Museum, Chester was inspired by a society formed by Charles Kingsley, then a canon of Chester Cathedral?
...that the Wright's Almshouses in Nantwich, which date from 1638, were moved in the 1970s to stand by the Crewe Almshouses?

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