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Phoenix Tower, Chester

...that during the Siege of Chester, King Charles I watched the Battle of Rowton Heath from the Phoenix Tower (pictured) on the city's walls?
...that when Winnington Hall was used as a girls' finishing school in the 19th century, it was visited by Sir Charles Hallé and John Ruskin?
...that the Monument to Captain John Francis Egerton commemorates a soldier who was killed in the First Anglo-Sikh War?
...that in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and one-twentieth of that built in the world?

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