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On August 4, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article God's Providence House, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that God's Providence House (pictured) in Chester, Cheshire, England, probably gained its name because the owners survived the plague of 1647–48?

On August 7, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Gamul House, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, (pictured) when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?

On August 8, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bear and Billet, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that the Bear and Billet (pictured), now a public house in Chester, Cheshire, England, was originally the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury?

On August 11, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Booth Mansion, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that when George Booth built Booth Mansion in Chester, Cheshire, England, he angled the building to make it more visible from Chester Cross, but was fined £10 for encroaching into the street?

On August 14, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Crypt Chambers, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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

On August 19, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Water Tower, Chester, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that when the Water Tower was built in Chester, Cheshire, England, it stood in the River Dee, but due to silting of the river it is now about 200 yards (183 m) inland?

On August 20, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Stanley Palace, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that Stanley Palace in Chester, Cheshire, was built as a town house in 1597, has since been apartments, a boys' school, and a museum, and is now used as an office and meeting rooms?

On August 22, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bonewaldesthorne's Tower, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that Bonewaldesthorne's Tower (pictured) in Chester city walls, Cheshire, England, was built in the 13th century and used in the 19th–20th centuries as a museum with a camera obscura and an observatory?

On August 25, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Blue Bell, Chester, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that the Blue Bell in Chester, Cheshire, England, contains a chamber separated from the rest of the building which has been a ticket office for stage coach operators, a soda fountain bar and a barber's shop?

On September 5, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article St Mary's Church, Hale, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Hale, Cheshire, England, is the grave of John Middleton, who was reputed to have been over 9 feet (3 m) tall?

On September 14, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Church of St Matthew and St James, Liverpool, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

• ... that the Church of St Matthew and St James in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, is described in the Buildings of England series as "one of the best Victorian churches in Liverpool"?