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The Picture Gallery: Photographs of Chester

The Market Square, Chester in 1994. The unspeakable structure in the centre of the picture is the 'Forum'- shops on the ground floor, council offices (what else?) above. Difficult as it may be to believe, it was built on the site of...

Market Hall 1964

...the wonderful Chester Market Hall, seen here just before its unforgivable demolition in 1964. The photograph was taken by Eddie Argyle and features on the Chester Photographic Society's excellent galleries pages. We're grateful to them for allowing its reproduction here.

Here are some more images of the changing face of the Market Square. To learn something of the history of this fascinating part of the city, go here- and here are details of the great changes planned for the area in the near future...

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