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In 1852 a suspension bridge was built over the Dee to link the suburb of Queen's Park with the Groves on the north side of the river. The bridge was rebuilt in 1923.

Eccleston is a few miles up the Dee from Chester. Here the river charts a more leisurely course as it makes its way to the sea. This photograph depicts the chain-operated flat-decked ferry.

The premises of Shepherd & Dee, the boatbuilders, are now two art galleries. Behind are the church tower and the chimneys of Brakspear's Brewery.

Enamel signs for Brooke Bond Tea on the village shop, a hostelry called the Bee and a small cottage displaying signs for the Aberconwy Institute 1915 and Llyfrgell y Sir or County Library suggest localised

Even from distant Clee Hill in Shropshire they enable you to instantly pinpoint the location of Brierley Hill.

Even from distant Clee Hill in Shropshire they enable you to instantly pinpoint the location of Brierley Hill.

The village also had a butcher, another grocer, two boot makes, an undertaker, a plumber, two carpenters, a market gardener and bee keeper and an insurance agent, as well as the three public houses.

Forever associated with its famous International Eisteddfod, Llangollen stands on the River Dee, seen here from the four-arched town bridge.

If there is any breeze blowing, it will blow onto Clee Hill, and consequently the village can sometimes be very bleak.

In February 1955, a meeting of Four Marks residents was held at the Bee Hive Cafe to voice their demand for a 30 mph speed limit on the A31. There had been several accidents, some fatal.

Polperro's cottages, many slate-hung and with outside stone staircases, seem to grow out of the very rock, and the town has been poetically described as 'a human bees' nest stowed away in a cranny of the

Burton is considered by many to be one of the most picturesque villages in the Wirral, and it is enhanced by the wonderful panorama over the Dee Estuary to the hills of Wales.

Eccleston is a few miles up the River Dee from Chester. Here the river charts a more leisurely course as it makes its way to the sea.

Local limestone and St Bees sandstone were used in its construction.

In 1410, the rector of Walkern had his hive of bees stolen, along with the honey, by one John Coke - it is said that the hives were kept in Beecroft Lane.

On the right hand side the four gables now mark four long-standing businesses, those of Downside Pharmacy, the Coulsdon Fish Bar, Jeff Dee and Pandora News.

Down below at the foot of the hill, the wind blowing off the summit on a cold day can make the village of Clee seem bleak.

By the banks of the Dee. Though used by excursion and pleasure craft, the river at Chester was last used commercially in the 1930s when a barge took a cargo of tar from the gasworks to Queensferry.

Now the Bee Hive Store and Post Office have been built at the end of the terrace and provide service six and a half days a week.

A border town with a ruinous castle built by Henry III, Hawarden lies close to Chester on the former main road into Wales from the Dee lowlands and the Cheshire Plain.

On the apocryphal 'clear day' it is possible to see the Malvern Hills, Bromsgrove, the Lickey Hills, Frankley Beeches, Clent, Abberley and the Clee Hills.