We had a lovely time in Chester and can't wait to go back. Let us know if you have any suggestions for places we missed in this video. Have you seen our videos from the first time we went to the UK? Check out our first time exploring Liverpool: ua-cam.com/video/LyoD5kP_1-c/v-deo.html
I like down by the riverside….lovely in a summer.Saturday with the boats ,cafes and ice creams..and promenading..and walking around the walls…i think Caerleon amphitheatre is as big but not as good..
When I went to Chester I was speaking with some locals in the pub and they seemed quite surprised when I said how much I liked it. It's a wonderful city and one to be proud of.
Born and raised in Chester, I'm super happy you came to visit here! Honestly, Chester is very underrated and its history is beyond interesting. It's also very convenient with it being a small city. Much love xox
My girlfriends family is from here and we visited last Christmas and will do so again. I actually plan to propose to her by the clock this next month. As a Mexican-American this town is beautiful and full of history, I love just walking around and capturing all the sights of the city.
My first time commenting! I have been following for a while but your enthusiasm spoke to me on this episode. I'm a Londoner by birth but have been living in Glasgow for the last 31 years. I have never been to Chester but It's always been on a must-do list. Thank you for making such positive, interesting content, it's a real joy to watch and escape with each of your wonderful souls xx
I’m a Cestrian (someone born in Chester). A famous Cestrian is none other than James Bond (Daniel Craig). Thanks for visiting and highlighting my home town - we need more tourists after Covid. Love your videos so informative 👍.
I've been looking forward to this! I live in Salford (Greater Manchester) but I used to work in Chester around 2010. I grew up in New Zealand, where only a tiny handful of the very oldest buildings are even 180 years old. Chester blew me away with how much of it's epic history was visible even now.
Are you near the Salford Lads Club? Is it even still there? I'm a huge Smiths fan and was planning on visiting it in March when I'm in the Manchester area.
@@garyyork1942 Hiya! To my shame, I've never been there. When I first arrived in Salford, I didn't even know what it was. One of the Eccles line trams that I regularly took was named "Salford Lads Club" but I never knew why. I currently live in the area around Langworthy Road, according to Google maps less than a mile and a half from SLC. I see that I have passed within 50 meters of it hundreds of times but never known it. The club is indeed still open and it's history page on wikipedia is fascinating!
Chester, where my Dad’s family came from, happy memories of many childhood visits. Glad you good folk appreciated how uniquely lovely it is, not many US visitors put it on their itinerary. My memorable school trip was to Normandy near Omaha Beach in 1966, 22 years after D-Day, and there were still fortifications to see, shellholes, etc, brought our history lessons into focus a little!
I’ve been visiting Chester ever since I can remember. As a young person I lived a short drive away, and even when I lived further off, I often visited relatives who lived nearby. Now I live fairly close and visit it just for a ‘day out’. There’s so much history there, it’s a real experience. The ‘rows’ (that’s what they call the two tiers of shops) are great in wet weather - you can wander round the shops & not get wet. Glad you liked it. If you get the chance, visit the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London. It’s a spectacular place. It was built in 1696. I used to work there sometimes & took some American visitors round on one occasion - they asked when it was built & I told them. Their leader turned to the others in the party and said - “this was built before we were a country!” We in the UK forget our history sometimes. There’s a castle in walking distance from where I live that was built in 1295. It’s still someone’s home, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. The local church was built in 1163. We’re surrounded by ancient history!
I'm thrilled you liked Chester so much. It's the hidden gem of England, and the gateway to North Wales. I used to be the area sales manager for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, a newspaper distribution office in City road Chester. This is why I recommended you visit Chester. I moved to America in 1983, to marry my pen friend. It was wonderful to see Chester once more. I only wished you had toured the cathedral. Great show. 🤗
@@TheMagicGeekdom I was coming here to the comments to mention the Cathedral! You'll definitely need to come back for that. I'm so glad you loved Chester :)
Chester is my favourite place in the UK. We visit at least once a year, usually tagging it on to a trip to Wales too. I'm so glad you guys visited, for me it's a must for any tourist visiting the North West of the UK 👍🏻
I have visited Chester on numerous occasions I have walked round the city, visited the military museum, visited the outlet and the zoo. In December I drove to Chester from Telford where I was staying to visit the Christmas market which is bigger than Telford’s Christmas market but smaller than Lincoln’s Christmas market which is one of the biggest in Britain.
I'm from Massachusetts and our 8th grade school trip was a visit to Boston to walk The Freedom Trail. It took us to Paul Revere's house, Boston Harbor, Faneuil Hall, the graveyard where so many involved in getting the Revolution started are buried. We had read Johnny Tremain which is a story about a fictional boy who was a silversmith apprentice and watches the whole thing get planned and eventually gets involved himself. And seeing all of those places in the book and knowing that they're real and a big part of history was really awesome. I was that nerdy girl on the trip thoroughly engrossed and in awe of it all. Loved every moment.
Chester is my favourite city of all. We live in North Wales which is less than an hour away, and we still have short holidays in Chester. Chester has everything we need.
Chester is one of my favourite places in the UK, and is the most incredible at Christmas. They have lights up everywhere, decorations, and also huge barrels up the center of the cobblestone streets with fires in them. I love it! It's on my bucket list as a place to go back to.
Isn't it amazing how different York and Chester are....both started as Roman Legionary fortresses, both developed as Viking ports on rivers connecting to the sea, and both retaining their city walls. They should be identical, but they are nothing alike.
We lived in North Wales, in the 80's- mid 90's, so Chester was our big Shopping venue. It's great and I love the Cathedral, in particular. We left to live in York. THAT is such a stunning place, way more lovely than Chester, with the Minster, Shambles, and many historic buildings and Churches.( in my personal opinion ) We loved it there. Then we emigrated and have lived in 3 Countries since. We do plan to visit York again, next year, and I'm so excited. It's not to be missed.!! If you must choose between one City or the other, I'd recommend York. Sorry Chester!!
I'm Cheshire born and bred. Chester is a wonderful place. Did you notice that the town hall has clocks on three sides and the fourth, facing Wales is blank, since the saying goes the people of Chester won't give the Welsh the time of day.
I fell in love with Chester as a 9 year old on a school trip from Manchester. I've visited many times since .and still do, with my children and grandchildren. (I'm lucky to live less than an hour away). Last time I went into the cathedral they had on display part of an original handwritten manuscript by the 18th. century composer Handel. He was waiting for a boat to Dublin, to conduct the first ever performance of 'Messiah' (Liverpool didn't really exist then and Chester was the main port for Irish crossings. He was still doing last minute rewrites whilst travelling) Chester has a great zoo btw.
As a Cestrian (someone born in Chester) I really enjoyed this video! I have been living in Colorado for the past 24 years but am happy to say I will shortly be moving back to my home town, and am very much looking forward to it!
I lived and worked in various cou tries around the world for 35 years and chose Chester as my home when l returned to UK. I knew the area and my daughters would get a good education here I'm a history buff and Chester seemed like a easy selection for me.
Love Chester! I have only been a few times but it is definitely a favourite. I did not go on many school trip but the most memorable was Beamish Open Air Museum near Durham. Great place if you like history - you actually see how people lived back in the day.
In Roman times Chester was known as Deva Victrix or simply Deva. It meant fortress by the River Dee and has also been thought to be named after the goddess of the River. In ancient Roman Deva meant goddess.
Almost moved there and the six weeks I have spent in Chester where phenomenal. Love the architecture, love the shops and little restaurants and cafes. Definitely want to go there again soonish ☺️
Memorable school trips: London Science Museum and Natural History Museum (next door to each other); Greenwich Maritime Museum , where the international date line runs through the grounds, The Cutty Sark, the Tower of London, Colchester Castle - a Norman Castle built on the foundations of a Roman temple. All these are in the south-east of England. From the midlands , where I live now, day trips my son went on includeTelford: the Iron Bridge and living museum and much more, innumerable abbeys and castles. The furthest he went was London and the houses of Parliament.
We went on a school trip to an awesome little OLD Plague Village, in Derbyshire! It’s called Eyam, and It’s history is fascinating (look it up, please!) and as a 13 year old i was totally gripped by it, and by being in the exact same place as these heroic villages lived and died 😪.
We did Eyam as well, but our trip was timed to take In Ashbourne so we could see the well-dressing which is a local custom, and Hathersage, to see Little John's grave. Another trip was to Hall i'th'Wood in Bolton, a mediaeval hall which was also the home of Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule which helped start the Industrial Revolution. We must have done at least one trip every year; British kids don't realise how lucky we are that we are surrounded by history and it's often only a short ride away.
When I was a child in the 90s it was a 1800-1900 period replica working town called Beamish with shops and an old blacksmith, who workers are all in character of the period, it has so much history brought to life , it was my 1st introduction to local history of that period in time,we got to dress up in period clothes and as a 10yr old I loved it.
As an 8 Yr old our class visited Stoke bardolf, a sewage plant. Yep that exciting. A donkey ate the button off my brand new coat. I spent the whole day worrying ( needlessly) that I would get into trouble at home. We ate tomatoes, then they told us it's what had been growing naturally at the banks of sewage inlet. Yes the seeds of those plants had passed through the human digestive process.
I live near Chester and it is a great city with so much history. When my wife and I tied the knot, we did our wedding photos at the Roman gardens as they are lovely
Cestrian born as I am, it pleases me greatly to see you profiling the city! It has grown and developed in many ways since I grew up there, but there's much about it that has never essentially changed. Your vlog captures that, I feel!
Chester also has a fabulous cathedral. Its organ has 4,000 pipes and sounds magnificent. The zoo is also world class...Plus its at the gateway to the North Wales coast... Really so much to see. If you lucky Ed Alleyne Johnson( the worlds most prolific busker) will be there. Oh one more thing. Virtually no traffic in the centre.
I’m a Cestrian, you really hit so many of the hidden Gems, I wondered if youse would find the coffin! You should have checked out the Chester Museum they have models and lay outs of how the city looked in the Roman times. You also missed the “bridge of sighs” (only found this out two days ago) worth a Google!
Remember going to the village of Eyam in Derbyshire (the plague village) and being scared inside the house where it started incase I caught something. (aged 10)
I have lived in Chester since I was 7 years old, I’ve always loved it here. I used to work in town, just up the road from the Amphitheatre, and in the summer months I always took a packed lunch to work with me, and on my lunch hour I used to sit and eat it there in the amphitheatre and enjoy watching the everyone fascinated by it 👍
Our school used to visit an outdoor persuits centre in North Wales, we went canoeing on the see, Skiing in the mountains, down an abandoned lead mine, white water rafting, and thats just some of it!
When I was in primary school, we stayed in St Mary’s church next to Whitby abbey for a couple nights! Probably the best school trip I had. Chester zoo was pretty cool too!
I grew up in North Wales so Chester was always our big day out shopping place, and then when I got older a great place to go for the nightlife too, I always loved the architecture and just general feel of the place, I'd highly recommend you visit Brighton, I lived there for 10 years and you'd love the old shopping area they have called 'The Lanes' it's just a bunch of narrow cobbled streets with so many amazing shops, you can spend days there looking around, and there's loads of amazing bars and places to eat too, it's a bit of a party town (now a city) and one of their tourism slogans used to be you can go to a different pub everyday for a year in Brighton and Hove.
I live about 20 or so miles from Chester in N Wales, we normally go there for shopping and forget to appreciate the buildings ! Nice to be reminded how lovely it is with visitors eyes❤. Our school trips always used to be to castles, because there are so many to choose from in north Wales! 😀
I am a carpenter I've worked all over UK and aboard, worked in Chester, when I was 21 founded memories, great girls well I was 21 ,great history, well shot video, nice job guys
It was great to see you visiting Chester, Its my home town, I have not been back in a while and there are times when I miss it, It's a beautiful City, Pleased you enjoyed it.
my most memorable school trip in the 80s, i was around 10. On a week long trip , we went for a walk in the country, South West England, around 5 kids, and our headmaster. i started to feel ill , so my headmaster had to carry me on my shoulders, we started to get lost, but i somehow was good at navigation and delegated the map kid. that wasn't the problem, the problem was we started to notice spent bullet casing's all across the ground. Somehow we had managed to walk into the British Army's largest training ground, where they regularly do live fire exercises with tanks, artillery. Somehow as a 10 year old , being carried ,while lost we managed to get out without being hit by an Artillery Shell
My daughter went to several of the California missions. My school was too poor for field trips, but in high school some of us in the drama dept went to plays and the San Francisco Opera.
School trips were places like The science museum, history museum, Winchester Cathedral, /Roman Baths in errr Bath, Tower of London, Mary Rose, Portsmouth etc
so bizarre that i came across your M&S food video and it was in chester! born and raised in chester, i even used to go to the dentist you found. and i spent quite some time in the albion pub over the years, it liked to cultivate an almosphere of being unfriendly but that was just to scare off big stag or hen parties etc, they just wanted to keep it quite and comfortable. chester has so many little quirks and curiosities you forget how great it is when you live there. the "roman remains" advertised in the shop are a roman mosaic that they found under the store room floor, now under a glass panel i think. there are loads of little things around like that. i always find it odd that so many people are amazed by the chester rows, to me that its just normal to have two rows of shops, but then i realise you don't see it anywhere else!
My husband was born in Chester and we are going there this summer (my first time)! Considering I have "roman" history in my family, I'm so looking forward to seeing this wonderful city! Thank you so much for your fabulous tour! Marisa 🥰🤗
@@TheMagicGeekdom It really was. I remember so much of it as it was so much fun and it was a long time ago. We stayed at LLangollen and moved around that area. You'd find lots to do in North Wales, its well worth a visit.
We're in Chester right now thanks to this video. The links to Liverpool were very handy too as we went there yesterday from Chester. Keep up the good work.
Great video ❤ as a kid I remember Chester zoo being one of our school trips, grew up in the area and it’s my favourite city, beautiful, historic and so easy to get around
Breath of fresh air watching this. Born and breed in this great city. I also love to see people options on our city and you both have a great perspective on it. Love it
I studied in Chester for a semester as an exchange student from Belgium. It was definitely the best moment of my university studies! I wish I could return soon.
The funny thing about your video is that, as a Chester resident, I never bother to look up at the buildings; yet I've seen things I never noticed before from your video!
Like you I was born and raised in Chester. Only after living in Germany for 15 years did I come home and really really appreciate the buildings. I mean I was in awe, like how did I never notice this or that before? In Spain now and have not been back home since 2019. Seeing this video really made my day. I have to come home soon.
School trips I remember: We went to a medieval house when I was 10 and we all, including the teachers had to go dressed in medieval costumes. We learned to spin wool and make Christmas decorations with oranges and cloves. We had to take it in turns turning the pig on the spit over the fire and then it was carried in whole to the dining hall. Also in primary school it is traditional in lots of British schools to go on retreat the last year at a school so went to Kettlewell and went rock climbing and caving. In high school we went to Stratford to see a Shakespeare play obviously (Antony and Cleopatra). We went to St Malo, France, to practise our bad school French. We did a geography field trip to visit limestone paving in the Yorkshire Dales near Malham. We took a history trip to North Wales. We also did a couple of retreats with rope courses and trust building team activities. For perspective, I went to a very typical school with mainly working class intake in northern England. Schools in better areas may have done more exciting things but I loved our trips.
Aw, you made it to Chester! Glad you liked it so much, I used to live about half an hour away and visited it countless times since I was a kid. I think it's somewhat under-rated in terms of 'British cities you should visit', it's a gorgeous place and so compact, you can easily do it in a day. And not far from Manchester and Liverpool so if any tourist to those cities fancies a day trip to somewhere else, well, here's a recommendation! And The Albion is, indeed, a wonderful pub!
If you're interested in more of the Roman history in England, come up to the Northeast. We've the Hadrian's Wall here. Part of the film "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves" was filmed in a particular part the wall where a special tree stands
Chester is one of those oft overlooked foci of British history. One of the most remote of Roman legionary forts in the Empire, the military capital of Mercia during King Alfred's daughter's reign there, a military centre for the northern Marches, and the home of St John's Church which was founded in the 600s, this city is a gem. As for school trips: whilst a young boy in Kenya, the most memorable school trip when I was eight was to the Fort Jesus in Mombasa, which dates from the 1590s; during my six yrs at choir school in London we visited lots of places on singing tours, but the two which stand out to me are the Hermitage in St Petersburg (Leningrad when we were there) and singing at the 6th Century Llanrhychwyn church in Wales. During Senior School in Cape Town I well remember our visit to Isandlwana battlefield, and being the first multi-ethnic school choir to sing in Khayelitsha Township (this was during Apartheid.
Ahhh, you did visit Chester! Just found it. Next time, spend more time to visit some beautiful villages outside of Chester. Maybe Beeston Castle which I see from my back garden…now that is old! Built to suppress the Welsh from invading England. The Sandstone Trail will give you amazing views of the countryside.
We had a lovely time in Chester and can't wait to go back. Let us know if you have any suggestions for places we missed in this video. Have you seen our videos from the first time we went to the UK? Check out our first time exploring Liverpool: ua-cam.com/video/LyoD5kP_1-c/v-deo.html
You guys visited my hometown, how random! If you ever visit again, try Hickory's Smokehouse for food. It's amazing!
The Grovner museum, it's free and you were very close to it. Chester zoo is definitely worth a visit but you'd need a full day.
Maybe Jersey our channel Islands
I like down by the riverside….lovely in a summer.Saturday with the boats ,cafes and ice creams..and promenading..and walking around the walls…i think Caerleon amphitheatre is as big but not as good..
Definitely try the Cheshire Ice Cream Farm ice cream! Delicious. A few places sell it in the city - notably cafes by the river.
I live in Chester and it’s interesting to see other people’s views on it, as I sometimes forget to appreciate it.
When I went to Chester I was speaking with some locals in the pub and they seemed quite surprised when I said how much I liked it. It's a wonderful city and one to be proud of.
How much chester far away from liverpool?
@@romi.114about 30/40 min drive if that’s what you’re asking
@@romi.114you can get a train direct from Chester to Liverpool, takes about 45mins for less than £10 return
Foreigners make you have more appreciation for where your from fr
Born and raised in Chester, I'm super happy you came to visit here! Honestly, Chester is very underrated and its history is beyond interesting. It's also very convenient with it being a small city. Much love xox
And very mucky, definitely going downhill.
Agree 100% much underrated. Loads of interesting paces..
Also born in Chester and love the views of the river dee especially from lower bridge street.
@@olliebeak131 agreed it rough asf i lived in Blacon omg not good moved to upton not much better
I live here!! OMG❤
My girlfriends family is from here and we visited last Christmas and will do so again. I actually plan to propose to her by the clock this next month. As a Mexican-American this town is beautiful and full of history, I love just walking around and capturing all the sights of the city.
My first time commenting! I have been following for a while but your enthusiasm spoke to me on this episode. I'm a Londoner by birth but have been living in Glasgow for the last 31 years. I have never been to Chester but It's always been on a must-do list. Thank you for making such positive, interesting content, it's a real joy to watch and escape with each of your wonderful souls xx
Thank you! ❤
There's absolutely nothing not to like about Chester it's a lovely city I'm so happy you are enjoying your visit to the UK xxx 👌🤗😊😘🇬🇧
It's so cool!
As someone from Chester I love seeing people visiting and their take on it
I’m a Cestrian (someone born in Chester). A famous Cestrian is none other than James Bond (Daniel Craig). Thanks for visiting and highlighting my home town - we need more tourists after Covid. Love your videos so informative 👍.
I've been looking forward to this! I live in Salford (Greater Manchester) but I used to work in Chester around 2010. I grew up in New Zealand, where only a tiny handful of the very oldest buildings are even 180 years old. Chester blew me away with how much of it's epic history was visible even now.
Are you near the Salford Lads Club? Is it even still there? I'm a huge Smiths fan and was planning on visiting it in March when I'm in the Manchester area.
America is very similar especially if you live on the west coast. It's amazing to see so much history there!
@@garyyork1942 Hiya! To my shame, I've never been there. When I first arrived in Salford, I didn't even know what it was. One of the Eccles line trams that I regularly took was named "Salford Lads Club" but I never knew why. I currently live in the area around Langworthy Road, according to Google maps less than a mile and a half from SLC. I see that I have passed within 50 meters of it hundreds of times but never known it. The club is indeed still open and it's history page on wikipedia is fascinating!
@@garyyork1942Salford is quite a big place. Salford Lads Club is still there, it’s located off Regent Road, not far from Manchester City Centre
Chester, where my Dad’s family came from, happy memories of many childhood visits. Glad you good folk appreciated how uniquely lovely it is, not many US visitors put it on their itinerary.
My memorable school trip was to Normandy near Omaha Beach in 1966, 22 years after D-Day, and there were still fortifications to see, shellholes, etc, brought our history lessons into focus a little!
I’ve been visiting Chester ever since I can remember. As a young person I lived a short drive away, and even when I lived further off, I often visited relatives who lived nearby. Now I live fairly close and visit it just for a ‘day out’. There’s so much history there, it’s a real experience. The ‘rows’ (that’s what they call the two tiers of shops) are great in wet weather - you can wander round the shops & not get wet. Glad you liked it. If you get the chance, visit the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London. It’s a spectacular place. It was built in 1696. I used to work there sometimes & took some American visitors round on one occasion - they asked when it was built & I told them. Their leader turned to the others in the party and said - “this was built before we were a country!” We in the UK forget our history sometimes. There’s a castle in walking distance from where I live that was built in 1295. It’s still someone’s home, which is pretty amazing when you think about it. The local church was built in 1163. We’re surrounded by ancient history!
I'm thrilled you liked Chester so much. It's the hidden gem of England, and the gateway to North Wales. I used to be the area sales manager for the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo, a newspaper distribution office in City road Chester. This is why I recommended you visit Chester. I moved to America in 1983, to marry my pen friend. It was wonderful to see Chester once more. I only wished you had toured the cathedral. Great show. 🤗
Thank you, Philip. It is one of the only cathedrals we've missed so far just a lack time. We'll have to go back and visit it at some point.
@@TheMagicGeekdom I was coming here to the comments to mention the Cathedral! You'll definitely need to come back for that. I'm so glad you loved Chester :)
Having visited many of the cathedrals in the UK, Chester is one of the prettiest and most impressive. It's a shame you didn't get to see it.
Chester is my favourite place in the UK. We visit at least once a year, usually tagging it on to a trip to Wales too. I'm so glad you guys visited, for me it's a must for any tourist visiting the North West of the UK 👍🏻
I have visited Chester on numerous occasions I have walked round the city, visited the military museum, visited the outlet and the zoo. In December I drove to Chester from Telford where I was staying to visit the Christmas market which is bigger than Telford’s Christmas market but smaller than Lincoln’s Christmas market which is one of the biggest in Britain.
I bet a Christmas market in Chester is beautiful.
I'm from Massachusetts and our 8th grade school trip was a visit to Boston to walk The Freedom Trail. It took us to Paul Revere's house, Boston Harbor, Faneuil Hall, the graveyard where so many involved in getting the Revolution started are buried. We had read Johnny Tremain which is a story about a fictional boy who was a silversmith apprentice and watches the whole thing get planned and eventually gets involved himself. And seeing all of those places in the book and knowing that they're real and a big part of history was really awesome. I was that nerdy girl on the trip thoroughly engrossed and in awe of it all. Loved every moment.
Chester is my favourite city of all. We live in North Wales which is less than an hour away, and we still have short holidays in Chester. Chester has everything we need.
Chester is one of my favourite places in the UK, and is the most incredible at Christmas. They have lights up everywhere, decorations, and also huge barrels up the center of the cobblestone streets with fires in them. I love it! It's on my bucket list as a place to go back to.
Isn't it amazing how different York and Chester are....both started as Roman Legionary fortresses, both developed as Viking ports on rivers connecting to the sea, and both retaining their city walls. They should be identical, but they are nothing alike.
We lived in North Wales, in the 80's- mid 90's, so Chester was our big Shopping venue. It's great and I love the Cathedral, in particular. We left to live in York. THAT is such a stunning place, way more lovely than Chester, with the Minster, Shambles, and many historic buildings and Churches.( in my personal opinion ) We loved it there. Then we emigrated and have lived in 3 Countries since. We do plan to visit York again, next year, and I'm so excited. It's not to be missed.!! If you must choose between one City or the other, I'd recommend York. Sorry Chester!!
I'm Cheshire born and bred. Chester is a wonderful place. Did you notice that the town hall has clocks on three sides and the fourth, facing Wales is blank, since the saying goes the people of Chester won't give the Welsh the time of day.
I fell in love with Chester as a 9 year old on a school trip from Manchester. I've visited many times since .and still do, with my children and grandchildren. (I'm lucky to live less than an hour away). Last time I went into the cathedral they had on display part of an original handwritten manuscript by the 18th. century composer Handel. He was waiting for a boat to Dublin, to conduct the first ever performance of 'Messiah' (Liverpool didn't really exist then and Chester was the main port for Irish crossings. He was still doing last minute rewrites whilst travelling) Chester has a great zoo btw.
As a Cestrian (someone born in Chester) I really enjoyed this video! I have been living in Colorado for the past 24 years but am happy to say I will shortly be moving back to my home town, and am very much looking forward to it!
I lived and worked in various cou tries around the world for 35 years and chose Chester as my home when l returned to UK. I knew the area and my daughters would get a good education here
I'm a history buff and Chester seemed like a easy selection for me.
What a beautiful historic city. Thanks for showing us round. Definately one to visit. Much appreciated.
Great video guys, it’s nice that ur checking out the uk, as American people.
Thanks!
Being from the UK it’s nice you show these places that we may of not been too
Thanks for watching Bessie!
Love Chester! I have only been a few times but it is definitely a favourite. I did not go on many school trip but the most memorable was Beamish Open Air Museum near Durham. Great place if you like history - you actually see how people lived back in the day.
I live in South London, really didn't know Chester was so beautiful with such interesting history, will definitely visit when nearby.
Beautiful city
In Roman times Chester was known as Deva Victrix or simply Deva. It meant fortress by the River Dee and has also been thought to be named after the goddess of the River. In ancient Roman Deva meant goddess.
That’s interesting. It’s obviously closely related to the word ‘diva’.
Almost moved there and the six weeks I have spent in Chester where phenomenal. Love the architecture, love the shops and little restaurants and cafes. Definitely want to go there again soonish ☺️
I’m from Manchester and Chester was our school trip to see the Roman history. We also went to Chester zoo!
Lol I was born "down the road" from Chester. Saltney. Funny to see Chester on UA-cam 😊
I live in Chester and it is a great city. Thanks for liking it too.
Memorable school trips: London Science Museum and Natural History Museum (next door to each other); Greenwich Maritime Museum , where the international date line runs through the grounds, The Cutty Sark, the Tower of London, Colchester Castle - a Norman Castle built on the foundations of a Roman temple. All these are in the south-east of England. From the midlands , where I live now, day trips my son went on includeTelford: the Iron Bridge and living museum and much more, innumerable abbeys and castles. The furthest he went was London and the houses of Parliament.
I have not been to Chester for years, but I think it is possibly the most beautiful city in the UK.
And England
We went on a school trip to an awesome little OLD Plague Village, in Derbyshire! It’s called Eyam, and It’s history is fascinating (look it up, please!) and as a 13 year old i was totally gripped by it, and by being in the exact same place as these heroic villages lived and died 😪.
Are the kids allowed to sing ring a ring a roses there’s days without offending anybody.? We used to sing/play that most playtimes
We did Eyam as well, but our trip was timed to take In Ashbourne so we could see the well-dressing which is a local custom, and Hathersage, to see Little John's grave. Another trip was to Hall i'th'Wood in Bolton, a mediaeval hall which was also the home of Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule which helped start the Industrial Revolution. We must have done at least one trip every year; British kids don't realise how lucky we are that we are surrounded by history and it's often only a short ride away.
One of the first school trips I can clearly remember, was to Chester, aged about 8, a tour round with our roman soldier guide, Walkus Crispus.
That's fantastic!
@@TheMagicGeekdom The cathedral is amazing if you ever make it back
When I was a child in the 90s it was a 1800-1900 period replica working town called Beamish with shops and an old blacksmith, who workers are all in character of the period, it has so much history brought to life , it was my 1st introduction to local history of that period in time,we got to dress up in period clothes and as a 10yr old I loved it.
I have family in Chester. Lovely place.
I love. Chester, so good to see you again. Hope you can come for the Coronation, very tiring but absolutely worth it. 🎉🇬🇧
One of my school trips was to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds.
It was great seeing the old weapons and armour.
That sounds really cool!
As an 8 Yr old our class visited Stoke bardolf, a sewage plant. Yep that exciting. A donkey ate the button off my brand new coat. I spent the whole day worrying ( needlessly) that I would get into trouble at home. We ate tomatoes, then they told us it's what had been growing naturally at the banks of sewage inlet. Yes the seeds of those plants had passed through the human digestive process.
I live near Chester and it is a great city with so much history. When my wife and I tied the knot, we did our wedding photos at the Roman gardens as they are lovely
Very cool!
My maternal grandmother was born in 1898 the year after Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
Stayed in Chester before Christmas many years ago what a great city
You guys are just so lovely! I live very close to Chester and i dont visit often enough, but your video has really made me want to go back again ❤
Cestrian born as I am, it pleases me greatly to see you profiling the city! It has grown and developed in many ways since I grew up there, but there's much about it that has never essentially changed. Your vlog captures that, I feel!
Chester also has a fabulous cathedral. Its organ has 4,000 pipes and sounds magnificent. The zoo is also world class...Plus its at the gateway to the North Wales coast... Really so much to see. If you lucky Ed Alleyne Johnson( the worlds most prolific busker) will be there. Oh one more thing. Virtually no traffic in the centre.
Born in Chester and still living in Chester - awesome to see you guys at places I'm so familiar with. Glad you've had a fab day!
I’m a Cestrian, you really hit so many of the hidden Gems, I wondered if youse would find the coffin! You should have checked out the Chester Museum they have models and lay outs of how the city looked in the Roman times. You also missed the “bridge of sighs” (only found this out two days ago) worth a Google!
Remember going to the village of Eyam in Derbyshire (the plague village) and being scared inside the house where it started incase I caught something. (aged 10)
Oh, wow.
I have lived in Chester since I was 7 years old, I’ve always loved it here. I used to work in town, just up the road from the Amphitheatre, and in the summer months I always took a packed lunch to work with me, and on my lunch hour I used to sit and eat it there in the amphitheatre and enjoy watching the everyone fascinated by it 👍
You 2 are adorable 😍 im sold - booking a long weekend to Chester ASAP x
My great great Grandpa Ward was born in Chester England. Hello from Tyler Texas!
I’m from Chester and if your still around north Wales I can always show u around and tell you facts about it xx
We went with school to some roman lakes in Cheshire, a place called Marple. As kids we were thrilled at the amount of frogs we found...
Our school used to visit an outdoor persuits centre in North Wales, we went canoeing on the see, Skiing in the mountains, down an abandoned lead mine, white water rafting, and thats just some of it!
When I was in primary school, we stayed in St Mary’s church next to Whitby abbey for a couple nights! Probably the best school trip I had. Chester zoo was pretty cool too!
The highlight of that particular Pepsi commercial is the 'blink and miss them' appearance of Brian and Roger.
I noticed that while I was editing the clips in. I don't think I realized that when I was younger. I noticed Brian's tall hair.
I grew up in North Wales so Chester was always our big day out shopping place, and then when I got older a great place to go for the nightlife too, I always loved the architecture and just general feel of the place, I'd highly recommend you visit Brighton, I lived there for 10 years and you'd love the old shopping area they have called 'The Lanes' it's just a bunch of narrow cobbled streets with so many amazing shops, you can spend days there looking around, and there's loads of amazing bars and places to eat too, it's a bit of a party town (now a city) and one of their tourism slogans used to be you can go to a different pub everyday for a year in Brighton and Hove.
We're currently planning our next trip and Brighton is one of the first stops. We'll have to check out The Lanes. Thanks!
I live about 20 or so miles from Chester in N Wales, we normally go there for shopping and forget to appreciate the buildings ! Nice to be reminded how lovely it is with visitors eyes❤. Our school trips always used to be to castles, because there are so many to choose from in north Wales! 😀
I am a carpenter I've worked all over UK and aboard, worked in Chester, when I was 21 founded memories, great girls well I was 21 ,great history, well shot video, nice job guys
Your videos are great.
It’s nice to see you go into detail of the places you visit.
Thank you very much!
I have never been to Chester. I think that I will take the family this bank holiday Monday. Thank you
It was great to see you visiting Chester, Its my home town, I have not been back in a while and there are times when I miss it, It's a beautiful City, Pleased you enjoyed it.
We really did enjoy it.
Just found your channel a few weeks ago nice and chilled I live 10 minutes walk from Manchester airport 🤗🤗🤗🤗
my most memorable school trip in the 80s, i was around 10. On a week long trip , we went for a walk in the country, South West England, around 5 kids, and our headmaster. i started to feel ill , so my headmaster had to carry me on my shoulders, we started to get lost, but i somehow was good at navigation and delegated the map kid.
that wasn't the problem, the problem was we started to notice spent bullet casing's all across the ground. Somehow we had managed to walk into the British Army's largest training ground, where they regularly do live fire exercises with tanks, artillery.
Somehow as a 10 year old , being carried ,while lost we managed to get out without being hit by an Artillery Shell
My daughter went to several of the California missions. My school was too poor for field trips, but in high school some of us in the drama dept went to plays and the San Francisco Opera.
School trips were places like The science museum, history museum, Winchester Cathedral, /Roman Baths in errr Bath, Tower of London, Mary Rose, Portsmouth etc
Those sound like good school trips.
My first school field trip was to Hatfield House, home and exile of Elizabeth 1 in Hertfordshire. It was stunning and my first feeling of time travel.
Visited Chester last summer. Some great buskers there and a lovely town.
I started following you because your videos are good
so bizarre that i came across your M&S food video and it was in chester! born and raised in chester, i even used to go to the dentist you found. and i spent quite some time in the albion pub over the years, it liked to cultivate an almosphere of being unfriendly but that was just to scare off big stag or hen parties etc, they just wanted to keep it quite and comfortable. chester has so many little quirks and curiosities you forget how great it is when you live there. the "roman remains" advertised in the shop are a roman mosaic that they found under the store room floor, now under a glass panel i think. there are loads of little things around like that. i always find it odd that so many people are amazed by the chester rows, to me that its just normal to have two rows of shops, but then i realise you don't see it anywhere else!
I love Chester. I live in Shrewsbury ( which is worth a visit too ), the history of the place is amazing. The buildings are so old
My school trip from a south London primary was to the fields in Hastings where the famous battle of 1066 took place. It was brilliant!!! 😊
My husband was born in Chester and we are going there this summer (my first time)! Considering I have "roman" history in my family, I'm so looking forward to seeing this wonderful city! Thank you so much for your fabulous tour! Marisa 🥰🤗
I used to live in Dee Fords Avenue, Boughton, Chester.
We studied the glaciated region of north Wales. It was so interesting and beautiful. We've been back several times since.
That sounds interesting!
@@TheMagicGeekdom It really was. I remember so much of it as it was so much fun and it was a long time ago. We stayed at LLangollen and moved around that area. You'd find lots to do in North Wales, its well worth a visit.
We're in Chester right now thanks to this video. The links to Liverpool were very handy too as we went there yesterday from Chester.
Keep up the good work.
Hope you have a great time!
I used to busk in Chester playing an upright piano. Many happy memories of my favourite English city.
Great video ❤ as a kid I remember Chester zoo being one of our school trips, grew up in the area and it’s my favourite city, beautiful, historic and so easy to get around
The first zoo to be built without cages. Also one of the leading zoos in the world for conservation.
Breath of fresh air watching this. Born and breed in this great city. I also love to see people options on our city and you both have a great perspective on it. Love it
The National History Museum of London. Seeing Tutankhamen's sarcophagus and being in total awe of it.
It is pretty amazing.
A day trip to York always remains in my memories from school.
I studied in Chester for a semester as an exchange student from Belgium. It was definitely the best moment of my university studies! I wish I could return soon.
The funny thing about your video is that, as a Chester resident, I never bother to look up at the buildings; yet I've seen things I never noticed before from your video!
Like you I was born and raised in Chester. Only after living in Germany for 15 years did I come home and really really appreciate the buildings. I mean I was in awe, like how did I never notice this or that before? In Spain now and have not been back home since 2019. Seeing this video really made my day. I have to come home soon.
Another fantastic vidio ,both of you ,Andy from Halifax UK
Next time you come to the UK, you really should come in the summertime, it's a lot less cloudy etc etc.
York and Harrogate are lovely part of the U.K. and Durham is absolutely beautiful
School trips I remember: We went to a medieval house when I was 10 and we all, including the teachers had to go dressed in medieval costumes. We learned to spin wool and make Christmas decorations with oranges and cloves. We had to take it in turns turning the pig on the spit over the fire and then it was carried in whole to the dining hall. Also in primary school it is traditional in lots of British schools to go on retreat the last year at a school so went to Kettlewell and went rock climbing and caving. In high school we went to Stratford to see a Shakespeare play obviously (Antony and Cleopatra). We went to St Malo, France, to practise our bad school French. We did a geography field trip to visit limestone paving in the Yorkshire Dales near Malham. We took a history trip to North Wales. We also did a couple of retreats with rope courses and trust building team activities. For perspective, I went to a very typical school with mainly working class intake in northern England. Schools in better areas may have done more exciting things but I loved our trips.
I like the fact that you both realise theirs more to England 🇬🇧 than just London hope your both well
Being from Liverpool, we visited Chester and York with the school I went to. So lucky to have these historical towns.
Interesting.
Aw, you made it to Chester! Glad you liked it so much, I used to live about half an hour away and visited it countless times since I was a kid. I think it's somewhat under-rated in terms of 'British cities you should visit', it's a gorgeous place and so compact, you can easily do it in a day. And not far from Manchester and Liverpool so if any tourist to those cities fancies a day trip to somewhere else, well, here's a recommendation!
And The Albion is, indeed, a wonderful pub!
I went to the Roman Baths when I was in junior school. I loved it so much, haven't been back since. It's so expensive 😮
I went to The Queen's School, Chester.
I can’t believe you got to visit the actual place that Britney sang “We Will Rock You” 2000 years ago
😂😂😂 Thank you for that.
If you're interested in more of the Roman history in England, come up to the Northeast. We've the Hadrian's Wall here. Part of the film "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves" was filmed in a particular part the wall where a special tree stands
Chester is one of those oft overlooked foci of British history. One of the most remote of Roman legionary forts in the Empire, the military capital of Mercia during King Alfred's daughter's reign there, a military centre for the northern Marches, and the home of St John's Church which was founded in the 600s, this city is a gem.
As for school trips: whilst a young boy in Kenya, the most memorable school trip when I was eight was to the Fort Jesus in Mombasa, which dates from the 1590s; during my six yrs at choir school in London we visited lots of places on singing tours, but the two which stand out to me are the Hermitage in St Petersburg (Leningrad when we were there) and singing at the 6th Century Llanrhychwyn church in Wales. During Senior School in Cape Town I well remember our visit to Isandlwana battlefield, and being the first multi-ethnic school choir to sing in Khayelitsha Township (this was during Apartheid.
Ahhh, you did visit Chester! Just found it. Next time, spend more time to visit some beautiful villages outside of Chester. Maybe Beeston Castle which I see from my back garden…now that is old! Built to suppress the Welsh from invading England. The Sandstone Trail will give you amazing views of the countryside.