In the summer of 1914, Chester took its geraniums so seriously that youths caught running across the flower beds in Grosvenor Park could land their parents with a bill for damages. The park was itself a gift: twenty acres of fields donated by the second Marquess of Westminster, shaped into parkland by the landscape gardener Edward Kemp and opened in 1867.

Thomas Thornycroft’s marble statue of the Marquess presides over it all, guarded that summer by guns from the Crimean and Boer wars. Down by the Dee, crowds watched the rowing from around a new £350 bandstand.

VoiceMap’s self-guided audio tours skirt its edges. A First World War murder mystery uses the park and John Douglas’s turreted terraces beside it to recreate Chester in 1914, while a haunted walk climbs the steps alongside, past a street lamp where a smoke ghost is said to swirl.