Here is an illuminating selection of Quotations & Comments from distinguished visitors to Chester from the 12th to the 21st centuries.
• Our new gallery: Chester in the Snow: January 2010. The Chester Gallery & The Liverpool Gallery 25 years of photographs by the author. Still accurate today after 140 years, a fascinating description of Chester's unique covered galleries- the Rows written by Joseph Hemingway in 1836, with additional material and pictures by your guide. • Thousands of Chester's departed citizens are buried in the wonderful Overleigh Cemetery. Learn about some of the more notable ones here. • Almost everybody is familiar with the works of Louise Rayner, a Victorian watercolour artist who lived in Chester for many years and produced numerous much-loved images of our city. Read about her life and see some of her masterpieces here. A History of the Cinema in Chester by David A Ellis and Steve Howe. Some memories of the recently-demolished Chester Royalty Theatre • A comprehensive and fascinating history of our city from earliest times to the present day: Chester: the Fortress of Deva by Phil Jones. • A Virtual Stroll Around Hoole is now online, including a useful set of local links (early days yet- sponsorship and advertisers are needed to help this grow!) Now featuring our new Hoole Business Directory! A short distance beyond the Eastgate is the suburb of Boughton. Here is an article by Tony Cummings (with additions and pictures by the author): Spital Boughton's Litany of Death and Martyrdom, which tells a little of the area's chequered history. The story of a vanished religious community that for centuries flourished on the site of the recently-demolished Cheshire Police HQ: The Nuns of St. Mary's. (we will also be meeting with the communities of the Black, Gey and White Friars during the course of our journey). A visit to a fascinating part of our city very different to the Rows and Walls- and the ongoing story of its controversial redevelopment over the last few years: The Old Port. • Some images of the 1992 Chester Mystery Plays (more and better images will be added here soon). A collection of amusing and irreverent Chester Anagrams by man of mystery, Seranus • You and I may enjoy a gentle stroll around Chester's city walls, but Simon Catterall once did things rather differently: a hilarious true story- Naked Around the Walls! (1984). Also enjoy his Youthful Memories of Chester (1974)
Explore
a
former disused
railway
line
running
from
rural
Cheshire,
through
the
city
of
Chester
and
on
into
Deeside-
since
June
2000,
the
location
of
a
superb
new
cycletrack
and
footpath-
but
for years threatened
by
a
madcap
council
plan
to
put
a
'guided busway'
on
it.
Join
us
for
our Virtual
Stroll
Along
the
Millennium Greenway -
and
read
a
collection
of
letters for and- very
much in
the
majority!- against the
CDTS
Busway. If you'd like to visit another example of a British walled city, here's a brief portrait of beautiful Conwy, fifty or so miles from Chester along the North Wales coast. A changing collection of Links to other sites discovered along the way including: Chester, Cheshire & North Wales, Liverpool, history, archaeology and genealogy, photography, internet & Apple Macintosh, music, environmental and miscellaneous links. Your suggestions are welcome. • "Oh no, not the holiday snaps!" A collection of new images by the author of somewhere very different to Chester- beautiful Cortes Island off the coast of far-away British Columbia, Canada. • Another Place- Anthony Gormley's amazing installation on Crosby beach, north of Liverpool. Photographed by the author (who grew up just down the road!)
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