Marble Church

Field Trip to Chester

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January 26th 2008
We had our second field trip today. We took a bus over to Chester, which is on the border of Wales and England but technically in England. It was a much larger city than I expected. We spent most of our time in the shopping district which covered about 10 city blocks. One of the distinctive things about downtown Chester is the 'rows'. The brick streets were lined with two stories of shops (wh ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more