Rowton, the Ballroom, Rowton Hall Hotel c1955
Rowton, the Ballroom, Rowton Hall Hotel c1955 Ref: r90014
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I went to Chester College as a mature student. Did a teaching course. Lived out at Hawarden and had to catch a bus into Bridge Street. From there I had to deposit my 2/3 yr old daughter at a private nursery near a church on the riverside, to then walk a mile up to the college past the Cathedral.
Loved the rows. Spent hours studying in the Library by the clock.
Studied Divinity and Music on the teacher training course. Remember seeing for the first time gravesones cemented into a pathway in that church on the riverside.
Gaining my certificate meant a worthwhile subsequent teaching career in Ely and elsewhere for twenty yrs.
Shared on 30 January 2009
Chester, Grosvenor Hotel c1930
Ref: C82050
Had a lovely meal in this place courtesy of a disabled aquaintance residing there. First time I had seen oysters ordered and eaten. Also cocktails shaken by the barman. I remember not knowing that the pot containing ginger was meant to be sprinkled on the half melon.
Shared on 30 January 2009
Chester, 1923
Ref: 73870
My mother Mary Burghall (married name Davies) was born in Chester as were three other generations which I have traced back to 1700s.
My mother remembers well swimming in the Dee. She and her friends would walk across the medows near Allington Place and swim right across the river. One of the friends fixed a rope swing onto a branch of a tree, and my mother and her friends would spend hours swimming across to the other side. They had races and my mother remembers that she very often used to swim the fastest and nearly always beat all the others across, even the boys. She was a competent diver as well. She is now 82 years old. She still rides her bike 1 mile to get get her newspaper.
Lynn Mace (nee Davies)
Shared on 30 September 2008
Chester, Suspension Bridge 1914
Ref: 67546
Walking to School Across The Dee
My Mother Mary Burghall (Married name Davies) used to walk to school everyday across this suspension bridge. She would would walk with her brother's and sisters and friends and she often says that this was the best time of her life.
Shared on 30 September 2008
My uncle Bill Wright lived & worked in Chester from the war period to 1963. He was a widower and had a damp old ground floor of a rather grand house beside the wooden bridge across the Dee. My Aunts , his sisters would go up from London and stay with him and I would go every summer to stay a couple of weeks.He loved walking and would take me walking into Wales through lovely countryside.From my bedroom, through Bay windows ,I remember the mist and stillness in the early morning as swans glided along the Dee - it was magic and a memory I shall always treasure.While fishing for tadpoles I fell in the Dee and my uncle , in his sunday best, dived in and saved me !
Shared on 28 June 2008
