Chester: The Wall 2

This next bit is difficult to show the scale. These photos are looking over the wall, across the water (canal, moat??), and down.

This one is looking back outside the wall across what I think is the Shropshire Union Canal which you can see on the map earlier. But I didn’t go to find out what street had the front of the houses.

I love this photo.

If you look closely you will see all the little gardens.

This garden in particular took my fancy.

Thank you Photoshop Elements. I do love playing around with photographs.

Imagine having a back garden that overlooked a canal and a Roman wall.

Then we came to King Charles’ Tower. I didn’t get a great photo of this. It decided to hide behind a tree.

King Charles was 'ere

Oh, yes. The pigeons. This photo is almost a story in itself. 

"Chester City Council has constructed a pigeon coop & feeding area at the Kaleyards, where people who wish to feed pigeons can do so.  The coop is designed so that pigeon eggs can be removed.

The Kaleyards pigeon coop is situated in the car park and can be accessed via Frodsham Street, or via the Kaleyards gate at the end of Abbey Street."

http://www.chester.gov.uk/council_services/environment_and_health/pest_control/pigeons.aspx

Apparently, the pigeons in Chester are becoming a hazard, so this was built to try and control the pigeon population.

However, amongst the pigeons, Kahless spotted this for me.

Another pest I’m told. The gray squirrel that has taken over from the native red squirrel and the numbers of red ones are limited.

They are still cute.

By now we are coming to the end of our walk. This photo shows the path looking in the other direction.

I’m afraid I got a spot of rain on my lens. You can see on the right the start of the gardens to the cathedral and on the left hand side, the Roman wall that stops walkers from falling off the edge !!

This photo is looking towards the end of this part of our journey.

This clock apparently is the second most photographed in the UK after Big Ben.

This is the Eastgate clock.

"The clock was placed on the Eastgate in 1899 and commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897. The wrought-iron was made by John Douglas's cousin James Swindley of Handbridge. This clock is by J. B. Joyce of Whitchurch. Until 1974 it was hand wound once a week."

http://www.chestertourist.com/clock.htm

And this is partly why our journey finished here. Repair works.

From the top, this is what we could see:

Chester on a Sunday. Shops are open. It is Remembrance Day Sunday and there is a service happening in the Cathedral as we were walking. Christmas lights are up and the streets are busy.

I will finish with that. There is much, much more that we saw that day, but that will be, hopefully, another post.

Madeleine

Wednesday, 12 November 2008