Amazon.com description: Product Description: Chester is well known as a Roman city once called Deva Victrix around 2,000 years ago. Over the centuries the city has seen significant change, but this has been done sympathetically for the most part and in keeping with the general antiquity of the surrounding buildings and streets.
Chester in the 1950s was a time of reawakening following the dark years of the Second World War. The city was lucky to miss much damage during the conflict, but like the rest of Great Britain the residents suffered from privation and rationing, not the mention the boys and men who would never return to their hometown.

From postwar austerity to the threshold of consumer society, Chester embraced the 1950s as a decade of renewal and opportunity.