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Garden front of Capesthorne Hall

...that after Capesthorne Hall (garden front pictured) was badly damaged by fire in 1861, it was rebuilt by Anthony Salvin who generally followed Edward Blore's earlier plans?
...that the partly submerged Mersey flat, Daresbury, is a scheduled monument?
...that Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum contains the first organ to be used in a Primitive Methodist chapel?
...that in her international debut season, visually impaired cyclist Sophie Thornhill won two gold medals with one guide and another two with a different guide?

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