A key element of the One City Plan is to keep our heritage alive in the city. The team, in partnership with the council, have been busy repairing sections of the walls and improving signage and interpretation as part of the PORTICO project – a cooperative...
Christmas will officially arrive in Chester on Thursday, 22 November. To mark the start of the festive period an outdoor market will open at 4pm at Town Hall square. Opening to the sounds of Dee Radio the market will feature Santa’s Christmas grotto and stalls...
Residents and visitors can discover the latest developments in Chester’s One City Plan at two open days next week. The drop-in session will take place at the Palatine Room at Chester Town Hall on Tuesday, October 9, from 4.30pm until 6.30pm and on Saturday,...
The first artists’ impressions of Chester’s £40.5m theatre and cultural venue were unveiled on Wednesday, 29 August. Bennetts Associates, the London-based specialists leading the concept design project, produced cross-sectional and front elevation views of the complex...
The first guidebook dedicated solely to Chester’s historic city walls for over one hundred years will make its debut next week. Explore The Walls has been written by Council archaeologists, Jane Hebblewhite and Simon Ward and project managed by Magnus Theobald of...
Repair work has been completed on the 200-year-old staircase linking the Chester’s ancient City Walls with St John Street. The sandstone staircase at the rear of the Wesley Methodist Church was closed in the summer of 2008, after potential structural problems were...
