ST. WERBURGH STREET

Was the route for all vehicular traffic from Northgate Street to Eastgate Street. From this street there is an excellent view of the Cathedral across a pleasant green on which stands the War Memorial.

The new shops opposite the Cathedral have provided Chester with yet another covered footpath which, like the rebuilt Row on the west side of Northgate Street, is more after the style of the " Butter Walks " at Totnes and Dartmouth than of the " Rows" of Chester.

The Music Hall, formerly the Chapel of St. Nicholas, was built about 1280, by Abbot Simon of Whitchurch. A place of amusement as early as 1600 it developed in 1773 into the Theatre Royal; Grimaldi the clown, Garrick, Kean, John Kemble and Mrs. Siddons are among the celebrities who played there; in 1867 Charles Dickens himself gave a reading in the newly established "Music Hall." The building is now an up-to-date cinema in the same ownership as the Gaumont Palace and the Majestic, both in Brook Street.