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...that the Tollemache Almshouses (pictured) in Nantwich may stand on the site of the Hospital of St Lawrence, a medieval lazar house?

...that James Chadwick, who was later to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron, experimented with radioactive toothpaste during World War I?

...that Crypt Chambers, a department store in Chester, was built in 1858 above one of the best medieval crypts in the city?

...that the stables of Oakfield Manor have been used to house lions?

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