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He was certainly a man of his time; he was a veteran of the wars in Ireland, Chamberlain of Chester, and a member of the Council in the Marches.

By this date the town was on the tourist map, being one of the recommended excursions for visitors staying in Chester.

The signpost pictured here reminds us that Little Sutton straddles the main road linking Chester with Birkenhead.

Irby Hall was built on the site of the ancient manor house of St Werburgh's Abbey, Chester. The building dated from the early 17th century and was completely half-timbered.

Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

But it may be that the final element of the name comes from the Norse word 'akr', indicating Viking settlement here – the Vikings certainly inhabited the county around Chester, but we will never know

Following the demolition of the bridge one of these lanterns is said to have been briefly used as a sweet shop on the road to Chester.

Its majesty was attenuated somewhat when the Great Western Railway line from Wolverhampton to Chester came along and was built even higher.

St John’s benefited from a number of bequests, including a weekly load of wood; this was negotiated by Roger de Montalt, Earl of Chester, when he sold off his lordship rights in the Earl’s Half to

Few of the late 18th- and early 19th-century visitors to the county passed through Lampeter, but one visitor who walked from Carmarthen to Chester stayed a weekend in the town in 1836.

Before the Chester to Holyhead railway opened in the 19th century, Prestatyn relied on agriculture and various mining and quarrying activities.

The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually

Nestling on its sandstone ridge in a loop in the Dee, Chester is closely framed on two sides by water.

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.

Built high on a sandstone crag commanding Tarporley Gap, Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, sixth Earl of Chester and Lincoln; the others were Chartley in Staffordshire

For the next five hundred years or so, Shrewsbury, like Hereford and Chester, would be an English frontier town; it was fought for by Welsh patriots, Normans and rebellious barons alike.

Fifty years earlier, the Manchester Cricket Club took over the Clifford cricket ground, situated between Chester Road and Talbot Road.

The James Watt statue is still there today, but the John Dalton one was moved; it now stands outside a University building in Chester Street, along with a piece of his gravestone from Ardwick Cemetery.

Boudicca's Last Stand The Roman-built Watling Street (the A5) has been a vital artery from London to Chester for 2,000 years.

Sir Rhys was a veteran of wars in Ireland, France and Scotland, Chamberlain of Chester, and a member of the Council of the Marches, and Oxwich was his main residence.

In any case, it was an ideal place to catch travellers to and from Birmingham, as well as anyone bold enough to travel the notorious Chester Road.

You will notice that the shops there, on the Chester Road end of Birmingham Road, are set back quite significantly compared with those at the Penns Lane and Emmanuel Church end of the shopping

The winner was W H Lynn, an Irishman renowned for his public buildings as far afield as Belfast, Chester and Australia.