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Article: History's Britain; Heritage Cities of Chester, Edinburgh open up past.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2003
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Byline: Victor Block, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Guests of a medieval inn at Chester, England, sometimes see the ghost of a woman peering out an upstairs window, looking in vain for her lover, who was killed during a 17th-century battle.
Visitors to the Shambles, a narrow street in York, England, that was lined by butcher shops during medieval times, notice large meat hooks that still adorn some houses; these centuries-old houses have overhanging second stories, so designed to ward off the sun. Guides explain that the overhangs also protected pedestrians below when people emptied chamber pots from upstairs windows.
Americans visiting ...