April 17th April at Bishop Lloyd’s Palace, 2.00pm We frequently visit mansions, built by the wealthy but in this lecture the emphasis was changed to look at the often neglected development of housing for workers. Our speaker Elizabeth Davey has written extensively about the Wirral and Birkenhead. In her talk she used the Wirral as […]
LORD Mayor of Chester, Councillor Sherin Akhtar, and representatives from the Bluecoat Charity and Chester Civic Trust have recognised Cyril Morris for his lifelong services in the architectural preservation of the city of Chester. Born within the city walls in 1927, Cestrian Cyril graduated in architecture and town planning before joining the Cheshire County Architect’s […]
March 29 – 3 April A Chester Civic Trust group visit to Gdańsk, a medieval gem on the Baltic coast. In addition to Gdańsk, the flashpoint of WW2, and site of the Solidarity Shipyard and WW2 museum, the itinerary included day visits to UNESCO World Heritage sites like Torun, the birthplace of Nicholas Copernicus, Malbork […]
Chester’s One City Plan (OCP) was first produced in 2012 and revised in 2022 through a large engagement process coordinated by Cheshire West and Chester Council. Its time period now covers 2022 to 2045 with its vision for Chester as a place ‘that is proud of its history and confident about its future’. April’s crowded […]
6th March 2026 at Bishop Lloyd’s Palace, 2.00pm Speakers Hough Green Local History Society were awarded one of Chester Civic Trust’s ‘GOOD’ awards this year for their unflagging work into the history of their area. They have published three books to date and are working on a fourth. On top of this they have prepared […]
Friday, 13th of February turned out to be an auspicious day for the group of members, who visited Lytham Hall and the newly refurbished Harris Museum and Art Gallery. The latter was so popular that many members felt they would return later in the year. As well as having a large collection of paintings, perfume […]
If you read the December 2025 newsletter, you will know that a party of forty Civic Trust members visited Bradford for its Year of Culture. We went to the Cartwright Art Gallery to see the Turner Prize entrants and chose our winner. Zadia Xa gained 24 votes and was the Civic Trust’s winner with Mohammed […]
Chester Civic Trust has responded to the call from Cheshire West and Chester Council for comments around the Local Plan Review. The Government has recently re-introduced mandatory housing targets on local authorities, meaning that Cheshire West and Chester Council is required to demonstrate it can provide for 29,000 new dwellings between 2025 and 2030. This represents […]
Paul Fielding of Lovelock Mitchell spoke on October 8th, on ‘Chester’s other architect; T M Lockwood and Sons and their ongoing architectural legacy. This lecture explored the architectural legacy of Thomas Meakin Lockwood (1830–1900), a prolific Victorian architect whose work shaped the urban identity of Chester and surrounding regions. It traced his career, family lineage, […]
The sun shone on the Chester Civic Trust walk, guided by David Mottram, exploring the Old Ferry Terminal and Victorian Pleasure Gardens of Eastham. David brought back to life the wonders that must have greeted the visitors when they entered The Gardens through an arch constructed to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The gardens contained […]