New book about Medieval Chester
'IT WAS very unhealthy, dirty and smelly," says Jane Laughton about the place that has been her obsession for two decades.
Some of it remains, less well known than the black and white 19th- century facades or the city's Roman ruins - traces of Medieval Chester in a shop's cellar or in a drainage system underneath the Cathedral green.
"It would have been quite overcrowded at times," reveals Jane. "It had no sanitation and no water supply and problems of what to do with the rubbish all piling up.
"I don't think we would have liked it too much."
Jane spent many hours researching the Court Rolls before writing her new book Life in a Late Medieval City. Click here to read the full story
Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester 1275-1520, is published by Windgather Press, priced £20.
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