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JUNE WILLIAMS was just four years old when her father bought a small estate near Chester for £3,500 and began transforming it into a zoo.
Now in her 80s, she has commissioned a book about her unusual childhood featuring many wonderful photographs of her playing with chimpanzees and holding her favourite lion cub, Christie.
'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.
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Laura Davis - Laura Davis is the Liverpool Daily Post's Arts Editor and 02 Digital Journalist of the Year 2009, which is in a large part due to this blog. She has a long-standing interest in local history and is keen to learn more about your own memories or discoveries about the history of Liverpool and the surrounding area.
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