Image Frontage, Chester station
Frontage, Chester station
Frontage, Chester station Chester station's Italianate frontage was designed by the renowned architect Francis Thompson and was opened 1848. With its three hundred and five-metre long two-storey façade built out of Staffordshire blue brick and pale grey Storeton sandstone, it is undoubtedly an impressive structure that was making a real statement of intent by Robert Stephenson's new Chester and Holyhead Railway! I took a similar photograph to this 1981 view when I revisited in 2021, see.... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30021093933/frontage-chester-station The lineup of 1970s cars, is notable for the fact that it includes just two foreign interlopers in the form of a Datsun Sunny and a Daf 33. The remaining fourteen home-built cars include no fewer than six Fords such was their dominance at that time! Our trusty Austin 1100 (UVJ 129J) is seen parked to the extreme left in the line up. Keywords: Frontage Chester station
Frontage, Chester station Chester station's Italianate frontage was designed by the renowned architect Francis Thompson and was opened 1848. With its three hundred and five-metre long two-storey façade built out of Staffordshire blue brick and pale grey Storeton sandstone, it is undoubtedly an impressive structure that was making a real statement of intent by Robert Stephenson's new Chester and Holyhead Railway! I took a similar photograph to this 1981 view when I revisited in 2021, see.... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30021093933/frontage-chester-station The lineup of 1970s cars, is notable for the fact that it includes just two foreign interlopers in the form of a Datsun Sunny and a Daf 33. The remaining fourteen home-built cars include no fewer than six Fords such was their dominance at that time! Our trusty Austin 1100 (UVJ 129J) is seen parked to the extreme left in the line up. Keywords: Frontage Chester station


Chester station's Italianate frontage was designed by the renowned architect Francis Thompson and was opened 1848. With its three hundred and five-metre long two-storey façade built out of Staffordshire blue brick and pale grey Storeton sandstone, it is undoubtedly an impressive structure that was making a real statement of intent by Robert Stephenson's new Chester and Holyhead Railway! I took a similar photograph to this 1981 view when I revisited in 2021, see.... https://www.ontheupfast.com/p/21936chg/30021093933/frontage-chester-station The lineup of 1970s cars, is notable for the fact that it includes just two foreign interlopers in the form of a Datsun Sunny and a Daf 33. The remaining fourteen home-built cars include no fewer than six Fords such was their dominance at that time! Our trusty Austin 1100 (UVJ 129J) is seen parked to the extreme left in the line up.