MANCHESTER. Monochrome On great Ancoats Street.

The wind is blowing, the rain is raining but I can weather the storm, I have my photography to keep me warm.

The wind is blowing, the rain is raining but I can weather the storm, I have my photography to keep me warm.

A had business to do in that London but in between it I managed to do a bit of a walkabout.

CHESTER. Under The Eastgate Clock.
The Eastgate clock has been a feature of Chester’s city walls since 1899, having been built to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee two years earlier.

Autumn’s winds are getting cooler and the clocks go back at the end of the month. The long drag of Winter is just around the corner. At least I have plenty of sunshine on file in my photographs.

If you flit back through the electric pages of my blog you’ll know that Chester is a regular destination of mine. It has a range of attractions for the camera carrying blogger. History dating back to Roman and pre Roman times, a range of architectural styles, plus the contrast between the hustle and bustle of the city centre and the quieter stretches down by the river Dee at the Groves where it pauses a while before launching itself over the weir by the Old Dee Bridge on its way out to the estuary and the Irish Sea.

As I said in a previous post the weather on my trip down to Caernarvon had been fun but then a journey with the prospect of bumping into coffee and cake is always something I look forward to. Purely in the name of research of course.