the very first two cats i had as pets ,when i was 1 or 2,were Chester and Suki.they died of cat leukemia….don’t remember much more than that. but Chester…..never been there.
11 May 2014
nigel
but did they choose you?
11 May 2014
nigel
On the chester front, is one half of the deva stadium in England and the other in the wastelands, or is that just an urban rumour?
11 May 2014
warden hodges
Good pubs and when it rains, walk along the shopping rows for dryness. Re Deva- apparently that’s true.
11 May 2014
neilthechimp
Played football under the floodlights at the old Sealand Road home of Chester FC a couple of times in the late eighties (battered on each occasion) but my abiding memory of Chester was a weekend spent at Saighton (pronounced Satan) Camp with the army cadets. The talk on the bus down there was of ‘dirty’ Chester girls and, well, let’s just say that by the Sunday night I knew this reference had nothing to do with the local lasses washing habits.
As for modern day references, if you’re ever lucky enough to be in the area (Chester is a gorgeous little city), you’d do far worse than spend a few minutes in this place…http://www.chestercheeseshop.co.uk/
12 May 2014
G100
Another band I like did a good song about the zoo.
12 May 2014
oLD Applejack
Very nice city, racecourse slap bang in the middle of it as I remember. Both oldest and smallest course in the country?
12 May 2014
JUST MARK
Deva Stadium is in Wales – the shadow of one of the stands is in England along with the car park.
12 May 2014
Eric olthwaite
I believe the racecourse is the only circular track in the country.
12 May 2014
bengwy
Very pleasing to have received the weekly update that contains this entry while sitting in a pub in Chester, a place I’ve never visited before. Happy to report that the cloud base remains low on the Clywdian hills.
12 May 2014
short-tailed Macaque 2000
You’d never see them, snidey little runts – all they’d do is throw bricks at the train going back to Rock Ferry. Never got to see the whites of their eyes and they were too frightened to come up to Prenton Park. You get all this sorry to see them relegated stuff but am glad to see them drop back towards the wilderness.
12 May 2014
Third Rate Les
I got really lost in Chester when I did a John O’Groats to Lands End running relay. Took over the baton slightly north of the town centre from the night shift at about 7am and promptly got badly lost and ran an extra three or four miles. Went through Bangor on Dee later that morning too where, perhaps inevitably, one of my team pulled up.
13 May 2014
Eric Olthwaite
@Bengwy What’s it like there? Thinking of going for a weekend break for our wedding anniversary and it’s on the shortlist.
13 May 2014
Brumbiscuit
Chester is like a poor man’s York. It has a wall around the city and plenty of decent architecture and shopping. Plenty of boozers and places to eat and much cheaper than York. Still not York, though.
13 May 2014
Eugene C
What is though? Apart from York
14 May 2014
Third Rate Les
So basically York without the minster, railway museum, vikings and with a much more boring wall. That’s probably fair.
Chester City went out of business?? Blimey – never even knew. I went to see them at Kingstonian in about 2006 or 2007 and they still had an air of a big club (well, relatively). And Russ Abbott is from there. Gosh, isn’t Wikipedia great.
14 May 2014
BrumBiscuit
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very pleasant place, and a lot easier for me to get to than York. It isn’t, though, as spectacular as its Yorkshire rival, but then again, I don’t think it tries to compete.
14 May 2014
POP-TART MARK
The walls of Chester are bloody fantastic, second only to York but a close second and actually with much more dramatic history. Unlike York, which was never really assaulted and was abandoned after the garrison was smashed at Marston Moor in 1644, Chester actually came close to falling in battle and standing on that part of the walls you can still hear the cannon, grenadoes and muskets of1645. No Minster? Stuff that for a game of chips, you have to pretend you want to bloody pray to even get in York Minster these days, Chester’s cathedral is fantastic, and Chester’s Roman remains are better than York’s. Climb the cathedral tower as the King did in 1645 to view his army being twatted a couple of miles away.
Chester may not have been a Viking city, but I personally believe that in a way it is even more pivotal in Anglo-Viking history. If Chester had not been built as a Roman walled city where it was, and so able to be held by the Mercians as their last outpost between the Welsh and Viking Wirral, “England” would probably have fallen to the Viking-Scottish alliance in about 963, and it’s doubtful (in my view) that our current language and culture would ever have evolved.
14 May 2014
EXXO
The year 963? Coming round to creosote the shield wall of Athelstan?
937, I obviously meant.
14 May 2014
wally owen is a short-tailed macaque
Some of it’s Western suburbs are in Wales.
15 May 2014
Android, Eyes Rolling
I was about to applaud Pop-Tart Mark for his impassioned defence, and then it occurred to me – where else but when launching a defence do you hear the word “impassioned” used?
@Android: an Italian ex of mine once use the word ‘impassioned’ to describe me in a state of tumescence. I had to suppress a giggle, though it was a stiff challenge.
16 May 2014
Android, Eyes Rolling
Thanks, I’ll not listen to anyone’s impassioned defence in the same way again.
And in answer to my own question I now realise that some people make impassioned pleas as well. Of course, an ‘impassioned’ plea using Brumbiscuit’s definition takes on a whole new meaning…
19 May 2014
EXXO
Chester home then Southport away within a few days in September, both good warm-ups for the real business at Wrexham three weeks later.
Such stuff as dreams are made on.
14 July 2015
EXXO
FAO MICK
This Chester lad Alabi, who’s scored 4 in the first half tonight, shouldn’t be 8/1 next goal (bet 365) and Hughes shouldn’t be about 7/1 to complete his hat-trick. get on if you’re reading this now (about 8.45 pm)
8 March 2016
EXXO
ah well at least i had chster to score next at 11/8
now repeating the Chester next goal bet at 6/4 and the Alabi NGS again
8 March 2016
bobby svarc
Ah, wasn’t around last night, snooker betting in play. Won a few quid, smoggies did my footy treble though.
9 March 2016
EXXO
That’s another local rivalry that won’t be renewed next season. Relegated in the end not by Rovers’ win in the derby there today, but by Solihull’s late winner at Hartlepool. Will Tranmere have any derbies at all next season?
Fingers crossed for any of you out there still hanging round a trap-door.
Archie walker
the very first two cats i had as pets ,when i was 1 or 2,were Chester and Suki.they died of cat leukemia….don’t remember much more than that.
but Chester…..never been there.
11 May 2014
nigel
but did they choose you?
11 May 2014
nigel
On the chester front, is one half of the deva stadium in England and the other in the wastelands, or is that just an urban rumour?
11 May 2014
warden hodges
Good pubs and when it rains, walk along the shopping rows for dryness. Re Deva- apparently that’s true.
11 May 2014
neilthechimp
Played football under the floodlights at the old Sealand Road home of Chester FC a couple of times in the late eighties (battered on each occasion) but my abiding memory of Chester was a weekend spent at Saighton (pronounced Satan) Camp with the army cadets. The talk on the bus down there was of ‘dirty’ Chester girls and, well, let’s just say that by the Sunday night I knew this reference had nothing to do with the local lasses washing habits.
As for modern day references, if you’re ever lucky enough to be in the area (Chester is a gorgeous little city), you’d do far worse than spend a few minutes in this place…http://www.chestercheeseshop.co.uk/
12 May 2014
G100
Another band I like did a good song about the zoo.
12 May 2014
oLD Applejack
Very nice city, racecourse slap bang in the middle of it as I remember. Both oldest and smallest course in the country?
12 May 2014
JUST MARK
Deva Stadium is in Wales – the shadow of one of the stands is in England along with the car park.
12 May 2014
Eric olthwaite
I believe the racecourse is the only circular track in the country.
12 May 2014
bengwy
Very pleasing to have received the weekly update that contains this entry while sitting in a pub in Chester, a place I’ve never visited before. Happy to report that the cloud base remains low on the Clywdian hills.
12 May 2014
short-tailed Macaque 2000
You’d never see them, snidey little runts – all they’d do is throw bricks at the train going back to Rock Ferry. Never got to see the whites of their eyes and they were too frightened to come up to Prenton Park. You get all this sorry to see them relegated stuff but am glad to see them drop back towards the wilderness.
12 May 2014
Third Rate Les
I got really lost in Chester when I did a John O’Groats to Lands End running relay. Took over the baton slightly north of the town centre from the night shift at about 7am and promptly got badly lost and ran an extra three or four miles. Went through Bangor on Dee later that morning too where, perhaps inevitably, one of my team pulled up.
13 May 2014
Eric Olthwaite
@Bengwy What’s it like there? Thinking of going for a weekend break for our wedding anniversary and it’s on the shortlist.
13 May 2014
Brumbiscuit
Chester is like a poor man’s York. It has a wall around the city and plenty of decent architecture and shopping. Plenty of boozers and places to eat and much cheaper than York. Still not York, though.
13 May 2014
Eugene C
What is though? Apart from York
14 May 2014
Third Rate Les
So basically York without the minster, railway museum, vikings and with a much more boring wall. That’s probably fair.
Chester City went out of business?? Blimey – never even knew. I went to see them at Kingstonian in about 2006 or 2007 and they still had an air of a big club (well, relatively). And Russ Abbott is from there. Gosh, isn’t Wikipedia great.
14 May 2014
BrumBiscuit
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very pleasant place, and a lot easier for me to get to than York. It isn’t, though, as spectacular as its Yorkshire rival, but then again, I don’t think it tries to compete.
14 May 2014
POP-TART MARK
The walls of Chester are bloody fantastic, second only to York but a close second and actually with much more dramatic history. Unlike York, which was never really assaulted and was abandoned after the garrison was smashed at Marston Moor in 1644, Chester actually came close to falling in battle and standing on that part of the walls you can still hear the cannon, grenadoes and muskets of1645. No Minster? Stuff that for a game of chips, you have to pretend you want to bloody pray to even get in York Minster these days, Chester’s cathedral is fantastic, and Chester’s Roman remains are better than York’s. Climb the cathedral tower as the King did in 1645 to view his army being twatted a couple of miles away.
Chester may not have been a Viking city, but I personally believe that in a way it is even more pivotal in Anglo-Viking history. If Chester had not been built as a Roman walled city where it was, and so able to be held by the Mercians as their last outpost between the Welsh and Viking Wirral, “England” would probably have fallen to the Viking-Scottish alliance in about 963, and it’s doubtful (in my view) that our current language and culture would ever have evolved.
14 May 2014
EXXO
The year 963? Coming round to creosote the shield wall of Athelstan?
937, I obviously meant.
14 May 2014
wally owen is a short-tailed macaque
Some of it’s Western suburbs are in Wales.
15 May 2014
Android, Eyes Rolling
I was about to applaud Pop-Tart Mark for his impassioned defence, and then it occurred to me – where else but when launching a defence do you hear the word “impassioned” used?
16 May 2014
chester chester child molester
@BrumBiscuit
Don’t get me wrong,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Bj8wrXslk
16 May 2014
Brumbiscuit
@Android: an Italian ex of mine once use the word ‘impassioned’ to describe me in a state of tumescence. I had to suppress a giggle, though it was a stiff challenge.
16 May 2014
Android, Eyes Rolling
Thanks, I’ll not listen to anyone’s impassioned defence in the same way again.
And in answer to my own question I now realise that some people make impassioned pleas as well. Of course, an ‘impassioned’ plea using Brumbiscuit’s definition takes on a whole new meaning…
19 May 2014
EXXO
Chester home then Southport away within a few days in September, both good warm-ups for the real business at Wrexham three weeks later.
Such stuff as dreams are made on.
14 July 2015
EXXO
FAO MICK
This Chester lad Alabi, who’s scored 4 in the first half tonight, shouldn’t be 8/1 next goal (bet 365) and Hughes shouldn’t be about 7/1 to complete his hat-trick. get on if you’re reading this now (about 8.45 pm)
8 March 2016
EXXO
ah well at least i had chster to score next at 11/8
now repeating the Chester next goal bet at 6/4 and the Alabi NGS again
8 March 2016
bobby svarc
Ah, wasn’t around last night, snooker betting in play. Won a few quid, smoggies did my footy treble though.
9 March 2016
EXXO
That’s another local rivalry that won’t be renewed next season. Relegated in the end not by Rovers’ win in the derby there today, but by Solihull’s late winner at Hartlepool. Will Tranmere have any derbies at all next season?
Fingers crossed for any of you out there still hanging round a trap-door.
7 April 2018