tarboat's photos with the keyword: chester

Manhole cover outside Chester Station. The lettering presumably refers to the Birkenhead Joint Railway which ran from Chester to Birkenhead and was operated by the London and North Western Railway and the Great Western Railway, or maybe it's Birkenhead Junction Railway. I would love to know what is the answer.

The Westminster Coach and Motor Car Works building in Chester has a façade of elaborately moulded terracotta and red brick and was designed by Philip H Lockwood and is believed to have been built in 1913-14.

Decorative work dated 1881 on a building in Vicar's Lane in Chester. There is a lot of weathering damage to the brickwork which is probably a local product rather than from the quality terracotta manufacturers around Ruabon.

Terracotta chimneys on the old swimming baths in Union Street, Chester. Designed by John Douglas and completed in 1901. The building is a grade II listed structure.

A wonderful example of the work of J. C. Edwards (Ruabon) Ltd is this dragon on the roof of a house in Chester. The original drawings for this piece are kept in the Denbighshire Record Office.

Terracotta detail from the facia of 6 Union Street, Chester

Fascinating terracotta and brick house in Union Street, Chester.