Portal:Cheshire/Did you know/56

Detail from Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772-78) by Johann Zoffany, showing Wilbraham (probably on the left) admiring the statue of the Venus de' Medici

• ...that Roger Wilbraham (pictured on left) probably admired the Venus de' Medici statue in the 1770s?
• ...that the oldest memorial in All Saints' Church, Runcorn, is dedicated to two women, "both good wives"?
• ...that when the public house The Falcon was a town house owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor in 1643, it was the first building to enclose its portion of the Chester Rows?
• ...that of the 31 listed buildings in Crewe, only two date from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?

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