Nikos' Sunday Strolls No. 59 - Circumnavigation of Chester

Why not start the walking tour of the City of Chester with an exploration of 19C plumbing and sanitation (more anon.).

Here is a line of terraced houses, probably over 100 years old each with a privy* at the end of the garden fronting on to the back passage.

*An outhouse, a small structure (holding a single person, and freestanding) for defecation and urination


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All I know is this is a good place to take Mrs Nikos on stroll around as the Roman city walls still mostly remain and avoid us having to mix with the riff raff shoppers  and  the city could have been as important as Liverpool has become except that malicious Welsh people threw their rubbish into the River Dee thus silting it up and making it unavigable from the sea to Chester docks.  There are also  Hein Gericke and Maplin shops usefully located near Cheshire's main  Triumph dealer (that 800 XC triple fits me like a dream incidentally) that we pass on our way from Knutsford.

Some Roman stuff

Some Victorian stuff

 

Some contempory stuff inserted into some Norman stuff

The Cathedral boasts wonderous and informative stained glass windows offering delightful prospects

The view over Northgate locks thought by some** to be the design from which many of the locks of the Panama canal were modelled.

 **Some old drunk who accosted Mrs Nikos


Having passed Chester Race Course, we have now made a minor deviation from the walls to cross the River Dee on the old bridge and stroll through the Groves.

The weir - behind us is the sea - during some phases of the moon the weir is covered for 2 minutes at high tide.

 

Weir, walls and walkers

Finally, we cross over Enoch Gerrard esq's 1852 suspension bridge to leave the Groves and return to the affluent Queen's Park area