Features Viewed from the Park - Viewpoint Five

 

 

 

14 Greenway Street

This cobbled street is the traditional home of Chester's fishing community. Once known as Sty or Stile Lane, its current name may be after Joseph Greenway who rented the salmon cage (a piece of equipment for catching salmon) in the 1840s. The river below the weir was an important fishery up to the 20^th century. At one time the riverside here would have had fishing nets hung out to dry.

 

 

 

 

15 Road to 'Nowhere'

This road leads to a house called 'Nowhere'. Its name may arise from its one-time use as an after hours drinking den when wives asked their husbands when they returned home late and drunk where they had been they would answer 'nowhere'. Local folklore claims that it inspired the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' after the band heard of it during a visit to Chester in the early 1960s.