ALT The Photograph of the Week from the History Hub is this #OnThisDay image of Chester Cup Day on Northgate Street from 9 May 1846. The delightful scene is full of people walking down the road, and there are several horses and carriages.

ALT A view of the whole excavation trench with students at work; the ruins of the east end of St John's Church are in the background. The trench is 25m x 20m.

ALT A student is kneeling and using a trowel to uncover a spread of roof slates.

ALT A tray filled with broken tiles, on top is part of a glazed ridge tile with an upstanding crest on its apex, one side of the ridge is missing.

ALT Two students are excavating a narrow trench filled with stone blocks, the foundations for a wall.

ALT Photograph of Lathom House, taken from the local history collections at Skelmersdale Library.

ALT 17th-century map of Lancashire

ALT Detail from map showing Manchester and surounding towns and villages.

ALT An image with 7 cells, three at the top, one in the centre, three at the bottom. The top and bottom cells contains images of archaeological finds. From top left: Roman ceramic jar, medieval enamelled plaque, gold lock ring. From bottom left to right: black stone axehead, silver openwork brooch, bronze and enamelled Roman Wirral brooch. The centre cell contains the logo for the Portable Antiquities Scheme which includes an incomplete disc brooch to the left with the letters Portable Antiquities Scheme to its right divided on three lines.

ALT Aerial image of the Albert Dock, Liverpool

ALT Costumed volunteers will be on hand to tell the story of Chester Castle in the Great War and are looking forward to welcoming you on Armistice Day, as Chester Castle will be open from 10am-3pm.