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New Cheshire Salt Works in 1986

  • ...that the family-run New Cheshire Salt Works (pictured) was said to have had a "magnificent" Art Deco vacuum evaporator, decorated with stripes of different-coloured woods?
  • ...that Maria Elizabetha Jacson was wary of offending her society's conventions by writing about sexual classification?
  • ...that Kris Leonard, vocalist of the band Viola Beach, commented that the lyrical content of their songs was inspired by their "very grey and industrial" hometown of Warrington?
  • ...that the Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937, has been described as "the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before Hastings"?