Paul's Chester Tours

29/10/2024

Spotted this morning from the Old Dee Bridge

21/10/2024

Born near Chester, Thomas Brassey was responsible for a third of Britain’s railways, three quarters of France’s railways and, by the time of his death in 1870, one in every 20 miles of all the railways throughout the world.

A bronze statue of a railway pioneer is set to take pride of place outside Chester railway station following a successful fundraising campaign. Cheshire West and Chester Council’s planning dep

20/10/2024

Celebrating our friend Richard's birthday with a night on the town at the Cornerhouse...

18/10/2024

A great review of Wednesday morning's Chester Tour! It was absolutely pouring with rain most of the time, so we mainly stayed on the Rows and visited quirky places like the Boot Inn, the view from the porthole window at Huxley's, the cellar under Pret A Manger with its Roman columns, the tiny museum above Lowe's jewellers with its display about the family member who fired shots in the air to keep 3rd class at bay while loading 1st class passengers onto a lifeboat on the Titanic, and the cellar under the Bridge Cafe with its Roman hypocaust.

07/10/2024

Yesterday's Travel section of the Sunday Times. They forgot to include "The Chester Tour", so I added a comment online:

05/10/2024

Overzealous traffic wardens just down our road in Chester...

Filming for a new feature starring the triple Oscar-winner is taking place in Handbridge in Chester.

28/09/2024

A damp start to the Chester Tour this morning...

21/09/2024

It's our last Cemetery Tour of the season next Friday at 4!

16/09/2024

Anyone fancy owning the Water Tower near our house? It's up for auction with a reserve price of £25K!

12/09/2024

A brand new addition to the pubs of Chester - Bishop Lloyds Pub, located on the rows in Watergate Street in the historic Bishop Lloyds Palace, opened yesterday.
Neil Chesters brews 600 litres of Chester Beer each week and also owns Huxleys on the City Walls next to the Eastgate - which boasts of having the best view on Chester through a porthole window installed by a former sea captain who was nostalgic for life on the ocean wave.

09/09/2024

The Lord Mayor Razia Daniels presiding over a flag raising at the Town Hall honouring the emergency services this morning

06/09/2024

Part of the group on today's Overleigh Cemetery Tour. This week and next Friday we are ending the tour at the beautiful Orthodox Church of St Barbara the Great Martyr in the New Cemetery.

31/08/2024

At the Open Minds Garden Art Exhibition, in aid of Chester mental health charity Platform for Life.

22/08/2024

Wore my straw hat for the first time this year for yesterday's tour from the Chester Visitor Centre. It only blew off once! This was my leaving present from the British Council's Regional Director Southern Africa for 38 years' service!!

20/08/2024

Getting James to design a new picture for my tour guides sweater! But I've asked him to create one which looks summery rather than wintry...