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Chester Inside Out
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3rd Jul 2017 1:38pm
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If anyone is planning on taking a trip around Chester, for historical tours, can I suggest a book by the name of Chester Inside Out by Gordon Emery. I have had this book for years and have been flipping through the 96 pages of History, which is so informative. It devides Chester into 4 quarters to follow the trail. Excellent potted History to just about each and every building etc. Well worth getting one if you can. Thinking Snowhite and DD might be interested. https://www.gordonemery.co.uk/booklist/insideout/
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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Its always been too crowded with visitors to be attractive to me, although the last time I was there - about a year ago - it was quieter. The owner of the Pub we ate at said it was losing out, big time, to Liverpool 1 which is drawing the shoppers away. There were certainly a few boarded up shops where I would have thought were prime shopping locations.
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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There used to be double headed Mersey fish,  or was that double headed Mersey ...  .... Does anyone remember ?
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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Well, Fish. You seem to be in the minority. The crowds have apparently flocked to L1 or somewhere rather than Chester. I suspect that ghastly 'Outlet Village' in Ellesmere Port may have affected the decline too.
You and Granny seems to be stuck in the past regarding the state of the river these days. It is a LOT cleaner than it was, to the extent that it is now perfectly safe to eat shellfish and other fish caught there. This is certainly the opinion of cormorants, seals, herons and a variety of waders that feast there. I live next to it, and have seen the dramatic effect on the wildlife as it happened.
It would be even cleaner if every time it rains, United Utilities didn't allow millions of gallons of untreated sewage to run into the river. Perhaps we need a 'supersewer' that runs along below the Mersey into which the overflow sewers could discharge, like they are building in London below the Thames.
You can't please everyone though. I was talking to an old chap who has always had a boat on the river and he was not happy about the cleanup. When it was so polluted there was little or no life in it, the wood of which his boat was made lasted indefinitely. Now he has to spend time scraping barnacles etc. off it and replacing planks as they get bored into and chewed up by the creatures that have moved into the cleaner waters.
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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It would be even cleaner if every time it rains, United Utilities didn't allow millions of gallons of untreated sewage to run into the river. There have only been a few one-off incidents, I think the last one was in 2010, the previous was 2006. In the 2010 case United Utilities was fined but as far as I am aware, the person who caused the blockage wasn't. The 2006 was was United Utilities being totally stupid.
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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Hi Ex.. Admittedly been a few years since I last fished at Seacombe Ferry..spending half the night pulling bits of bog roll sanitary towels and the occasional tonky (as we affectionately called them at school) etc from my fishing line. I think the shellfish ban etc was more because of the heavy chemicals rather than the brown stuff. Agree about Ellesmere Port.....another of my "last places on earth" to visit.
Granny: Not knowingly come across the double headed Mersey fish but can guess what it might have been.
There were deformities, and I vaguely remember two headed fish being mentioned. All to do with sediment , and toxicity of chemicals (I think). Please correct me if I'm wrong .What have you been eating all these years Fish. I found this which to be honest I don't really understand, but someone else might do. http://www.environmentdata.org/archive/ealit:500/OBJ/19001371.pdf Why do I love wikiwirral ? ....because we start of with a book about guided walks in Chester and end up in the murky waters of the Mersey with all sorts of unmentionables and the environmental problems resulting in deformed fish. They had mouth deformities amongst others(not you Fish but maybe you can translate). Such fun
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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Re: Chester Inside Out
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Lovely pics, Gibbo. Sorry ,only just seen this post.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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