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- ... that Derby Museum has a diagram of Ecton Hill (pictured) made from Ashford Black Marble and other minerals?
- ... that Gresley Parish Church (pictured) was a 12th century Augustinian priory?
- ... that the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire?
- .. that the first captain of Derbyshire County Cricket Club fled the UK after the captain in 1890 discovered embezzlement of £1000 from the club's coffers?
- ... that the volcano Mount St. Helens is named after Alleyne FitzHerbert of Derby?
- ... that John Cowper Powys, the writer, came from Derbyshire?
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