Tagged With "Chester"

What an incredible building! Great reveal and photos!

Chester Cathedral isn't the oldest, largest, or most famous but PHeymont calls it one of the most beautiful...and with a most fascinating history.

A sunny moment at Chester, along the River Dee, the traditional boundary between England and Wales.

Thanks Paul. I'd say that's your best presentation to date. I think I'll return and take another - more educated - look at Chester Cathedral. Chester City is full of architecture built by the Romans 2,000 years ago. I offered to take a Canadian girl - visiting us in Liverpool - to "Walk the Roman Walls" of Chester. "We did history at school - it sucks" she replied. Ah! - the innocence of youth ! "Couldn't we just drive".

Sadly, she was right, in a way. Quite aside from the political biases, the big mistake we make in teaching history is that we teach it as if it were the past.

Thank you Paul for a great piece. I went to Chester with my son on recommendation from GarryRF and we really enjoyed it. Seeing the racetrack there was my favorite part and it looks to me like the races would be visible from the Roman Wall.

George Santayana (d.1952) said" Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."

A wonderful History lesson - Thank You.

Sometimes you make a plan to see something, but don't get there for a long time. And sometimes you have no plan at all, and just find something worth seeing. The latter happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I was left with time to kill in Lower...