‘Sick to Death’ opening in Chester

THE doors to Chester’s first new visitor attraction for decades – based on the city’s world famous walls – will open for the first time on Saturday morning (August 6).

Created by Chester-based social enterprise Big Heritage, and supported by Cheshire West and Chester Council and Wellcome, two iconic 14th century Chester landmarks have been converted into family attraction, Sick to Death, charting the gory and gruesome of Chester’s medical past.

The new Sick to Death attraction features previously unseen local bone discoveries, original civil war artefacts and is the home to the now infamous Chester plague doctor.

Visitors of all ages will also have the chance to re-live the plague-ridden, disease infected eras of days gone by as they explore a series of gory interactive exhibits designed to shock, thrill and educate.

And the icing on the cake is one of the country’s only working camera obscuras, which dates back to the 1830s. The historic device paved the way for the cameras that we use today.

Housed in two 14th century towers – the Water Tower and Bonewaldesthorne’s Tower on Chester’s world famous Roman Walls – the ambitious project will open at 11am.