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A History of the County of Chester
… area of 19th-century housing between City Road and Crewe Street near the railway station was replaced by a mixed …
A History of the County of Chester
… the city centre, for example a modest terrace behind King Street and two schemes by Robin Clayton between Duke Street … of the early 1980s in Castle Street, Castle Place, and St. Mary's Hill. 5 V.C.H. Ches. v (2), Population. Chester …
A History of the County of Chester
… slum housing and semi-derelict areas such as Lower Bridge Street and Watergate Street. From the 1960s, however, Chester's economic fortunes …
A History of the County of Chester
… partly because the tramways committee was responsible for street repairs. In 1928, rather than renovate the system, …
A History of the County of Chester
… was the location of the county headquarters (in Foregate Street until 1964). 3 Chester retained its own fire service …
A History of the County of Chester
… fruit, fish, and dairy produce. One family had no milk at all; another lived almost entirely on bread and … evident in a complaint of 1937 that people in Watergate Street, Crane Street, Stanley Place, and Paradise Row stood … 27.3 per thousand. The ward with the highest death rate, St. Oswald's, had the worst overcrowding. In 1919 some 300 …
A History of the County of Chester
… car parking was plentiful. The Odeon survived in Northgate Street. The civic theatre, the Gateway, was moderately … v (2), Leisure and Culture. Chester District Local Plan: 1 st Draft, 1996, p. 218; Chester Chron. 24 Sept. 1993; V.C.H. … Places of Entertainment. Chester District Local Plan: 1 st Draft, 1996, p. 217; Chester Chron. 8 Jan. 1993. Archives …
A History of the County of Chester
… 2,000. The premier department store, Browns of Eastgate Street, had a staff of over 600. Other services were also … in 1958. A small new head office opened in Newgate Street in 1956 and was replaced by a large one, of eight … services in alliance with car manufacturers and high-street retailers, including Marks & Spencer and C & A. 1 The …
A History of the County of Chester
… Tesco retained a presence in the city centre, at Frodsham Street. Local shops survived in fairly large numbers in … in the most desirable locations, including Eastgate Street and Foregate Street, were as high as in Liverpool and Manchester city …
A History of the County of Chester
… centre made available by the clearance of the Princess Street slums. Further planning was then abandoned because of … of the amphitheatre's outer wall along a widened Little St. John Street. Controversy over the route and the design of … Lane. 7 Only a few new buildings, such as Maxwell Ayrton's St. Werburgh Row of 1935 in St. Werburgh Street, were …