Heritage Chester

Heritage Chester Festival celebrating Chester's history & heritage

👣🎭 Ever wondered what goes on behind Chester's street performers?Join Dave Southern for Pavementology Storywalk and disc...
02/06/2026

👣🎭 Ever wondered what goes on behind Chester's street performers?

Join Dave Southern for Pavementology Storywalk and discover the stories, traditions, and hidden culture behind the performers who bring the city's streets to life.

✨ Learn how performers work together
✨ Hear stories from Chester's streets
✨ Discover the secrets of gathering a crowd

🎟️ Book your place now: www.eventbrite.com/e/pavementology-storywalk-with-dave-southern-tickets-1988377241856

There's still so much to explore at Chester Heritage Festival this week and our guided tours programme is packed with re...
02/06/2026

There's still so much to explore at Chester Heritage Festival this week and our guided tours programme is packed with reasons to get out and discover your city. 🗺️

⚖️ Criminal Chester: 2,000 Years of Crime
😈 Filthy Chester
🕯️ Dark Chester
🪦 Stories in Stone at Overleigh Cemetery
🏙️ Courtyards and Lanes of Chester
⏰ Time Travel Tour of Chester
🎵 Pavementology Storywalk with Dave Southern

Full programme 👉 https://buff.ly/WwyDgl0

Save the dates! 🏰💜There are plenty of opportunities to explore some of Chester’s fascinating historic landmarks for the ...
01/06/2026

Save the dates! 🏰💜

There are plenty of opportunities to explore some of Chester’s fascinating historic landmarks for the rest of the year with Heritage Chester.

Step inside the Leadworks Shot Tower, stand where history unfolded at King Charles’ Tower, discover the incredible Camera Obscura at Bonewaldesthorne’s Tower, and meet Æthelflæd at the Water Tower this September.

Whether you’re a history enthusiast, curious local, or looking for something different to do with family and friends, these openings are a fantastic chance to discover more of Chester’s rich heritage.

📅 Check the images for all upcoming dates and save this post so you don’t miss out!

Atlantic salmon in the River Dee. It sounds extraordinary - and it is. 🐟🌊Join the Dee Trust for a riverside walk and tal...
01/06/2026

Atlantic salmon in the River Dee. It sounds extraordinary - and it is. 🐟🌊

Join the Dee Trust for a riverside walk and talk along the Dee on Tuesday 2 June, uncovering the remarkable story of the Atlantic salmon and the very real challenges facing one of the UK's most iconic rivers. What are the threats? What's being done? And what does the future look like for the Dee and the wildlife that depends on it?

Starting from The Ship Inn in Handbridge - right on the riverbank - this is an hour that will make you look at the Dee very differently.

📍 Meet behind The Ship Inn, 18 Handbridge, Chester CH4 7JE | Tuesday 2 June

Two sessions available:
⏰ 11:30am–12:30pm 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988392406213
⏰ 2:30pm–3:30pm 🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988438972494

01/06/2026

Explore Chester’s dark side… if you dare 👻🌙

Join Green Badge Tourist Guide David Atkinson for Dark Chester - an award-winning storytelling walking tour uncovering the city’s spooky stories, horrible histories, and dark past.

Drawing on David’s book A Dark History of Chester, this chilling guided experience reveals the stories history doesn’t always like to tell…

🏆 Winner of Tourism Experience of the Year at the Marketing Cheshire Awards
🗓️ Saturday 6 June
📍 Meet outside Chester Picturehouse, Hunter St, CH1 2AR

🎟️ Don’t miss out. Book now....if you dare!👉 https://buff.ly/Yr2Hmew

Extraordinary tales from ordinary lives. 📰Chester's 18th-century newspapers were full of them - and on Tuesday 2 June, l...
31/05/2026

Extraordinary tales from ordinary lives. 📰

Chester's 18th-century newspapers were full of them - and on Tuesday 2 June, local historian and writer Chris Fozzard is bringing the best of them to Chester Picturehouse.

Old News: Tragedy and Comedy in the Early Chester Press draws on years of research into Chester's earliest newspapers, unearthing vivid, surprising and thoroughly entertaining stories from an era when ordinary people found themselves caught up in frankly bizarre events. The kind of local history that makes you realise people really haven't changed that much.

Signed copies of Chris's books will also be available to purchase on the day. 📚

📍 Chester Picturehouse | ⏰ 11am–12pm | Tuesday 2 June

🎟️ Book your tickets 👉 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988478259001

31/05/2026

👣🎭 The final Pavementology Storywalk is almost here!

Join veteran street performer Dave Southern for a fascinating journey through Chester’s street performance scene, uncovering the stories, history, and hidden culture behind the artists who bring the city’s streets to life.

🎟️ Book your tickets now before the final walk takes place.
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/pavementology-storywalk-with-dave-southern-tickets-1988377241856

There's still so much to explore at Chester Heritage Festival this week, and our guided tours programme is packed with r...
31/05/2026

There's still so much to explore at Chester Heritage Festival this week, and our guided tours programme is packed with reasons to get out and discover your city. 🗺️

Criminal Chester. Filthy Chester. Dark Chester. Stories behind the gravestones at Overleigh Cemetery. Hidden courtyards and lanes. Atlantic salmon on the River Dee. Chester's secrets, told by the people who know them best.

Full programme 👉 https://buff.ly/WwyDgl0

The chewing gum girl. The mysterious acrobat. And countless other extraordinary lives lying quietly in a Handbridge ceme...
31/05/2026

The chewing gum girl. The mysterious acrobat. And countless other extraordinary lives lying quietly in a Handbridge cemetery. 🪦

Stories in Stone is a guided walking tour of Overleigh Old Cemetery with Green Badge Tourist Guide Paul Woods - one of Chester's most atmospheric and life-affirming heritage experiences. From the great and good of Chester to the forgotten characters whose stories deserve to be told, Paul brings the remarkable human histories behind the gravestones vividly to life.

📍 Meet at Overleigh Old Cemetery, Overleigh Road, Handbridge CH4 7HL (opposite Blackwells Stonecraft)
⏰ 2:30pm–4pm | Wednesday 3 June
🎟️ Book your tickets 👉 https://buff.ly/8JjHrc8

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