Standing in five acres of carefully manicured lawns on the outskirts of the Cheshire town of Crewe, Webb House is an imposing building.
With its central clock tower, structurally it remains much as it was when it first opened its doors in 1912, as an orphanage for the children of workers employed by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) who had lost one or both parents due to an accident at work.
But if the facade of the Grade II-listed property remains much as it was a century ago, that is where the similarity ends.
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