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Thomas Aldersey by Robert Peake the elder (1588)

...that Thomas Aldersey (pictured) gave the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, now an educational charity, their first school?
...that the Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere was the first major piece of open-air public sculpture to be erected in Cheshire?
...that St John the Evangelist's Church in Runcorn is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
...that the ornate Chesters' Stores building of 1911 in Nantwich was likened to the Lusitania liner because of its porthole-like windows?

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