St Mary's Hill

My son used to go to St Mary's Nursery when he was small, which is at the top of a very steep cobbled hill. In those days you could drive down it (and we did, at least once)- extremely dangerous if there was any ice or snow - but now the council have blocked it off with bollards.

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City Rd Presbyterian Church

At the end of City Rd (the road leading from the station) nearest to the city centre is a Presbyterian Church in a listed building. From their website:
The congregation consists of 32 families with over 60 persons of all ages claiming a connection to us.
but it seems a huge building for that size of congregation, and must be a little under-used.

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Bettws-y-Coed

Bettws-y-Coed (or Betws, it gets spelt both ways) is pronounced Bettoos uh coyd. The y-Coed part is the Welsh for 'in the woods', and it is surrounded by greenery, with a sparkling river forming some large and some small waterfalls, such as this one. Bettws is also the local mecca for outdoor and camping shops.

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The Brewery Tap

The Brewery Tap is a relatively new pub on Bridge St, based in an old building, Gamul House. The main room of the pub is the former Great Hall of the house, where King Charles I is known to have stayed during the Civil War.
You can read more about it here: www.the-tap.co.uk/gamul-house/
The name the Brewery Tap comes from it being the nearest outlet for a brewery's beers. Usually this is a bar in the brewery itself, but in this case it is the nearest pub to the Spitting Feathers Brewery.

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The Chester Hangman

At the end of City Road, where is joins Boughton, there is a pub called the Chester Hangman. Upstairs, though, it turns into a club with a thriving music scene, and where Friday nights are the place to be if you are a local goth. And if you fancy being a performer yourself, then there is an Open Mic night on Mondays. http://www.chesterhangman.co.uk/

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Viking Chester I

Although we think of Chester as a Roman settlement, actually in about 900AD it was in an extremely important trading position, as it was where Danelaw met Mercia and Wales (see map), and there is evidence of a sizeable Viking settlement in Bridge St.  The photo below shows St Olave (or Olaf) Street, around where the Vikings would largely have been based.

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The City Club

The City Club is one of those mysterious organisations that seems to exist pretty much to further the drinking habits of its' members. Many owners of small businesses in and around the city centre go there at lunchtimes to socialise, to pass work on to each other, and sometimes even to arrange mergers. The building is tucked away in St Peters Churchyard, between St Peters and the Commercial Hotel.

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