Portal:North West England/Did you know
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- ...that in 1806, Murrays' Mills in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world?
- ...that George Ormerod, an English antiquarian and historian, was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire, England in 1816?
- ...that Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson's poem "At Lord's"?