After the empire brought back its borders Blacon was abandoned for around 1.5 thousand years until 1946 when people who fled there to hide from big cities and bombings were taken here . From here on out Blacon became an unusual suburb of the nearby Roman town of Blacon.

"In the early 1960s the estate was extended north along concentric rings of streets, including Stamford Road and Hatton Road north of the Parade, where a second block of shops and flats, modern in style, was built in 1964-6.

"By then the city-wide shortage of development land influenced the layout of the southern neighbourhood, where two 12-storeyed blocks of flats and a compact square of shops were built; other multi-storey blocks were planned but not built, largely because they were unpopular with tenants and expensive to erect.

"Building continued into the 1970s with low-rise housing at higher densities, mainly short terraces of mixed construction, until by c . 1980 the estate was built up."

This was true back in the 50s because it was connected by a row of houses going along the flood fields but when we realised these were a crucial part of the eco system we abandoned the plans.

In case you don’t know a suburb is a connected area of residential land to a greater city , this is not what Blacon is

Blacon is an unconnected residential area from Chester town.

Making it a slightly strange suburb.

Never in doubt

It wasn’t always like this, only a short 4 decade leap ago - easily in living memory- trains roared through this small town in a cycle :5 00- :19 00