Images and Site Records from an Archaelogical Evaluation at the Cheshire Archives History Centre, Hoole Road, Hoole Bridge, Chester, Cheshire, September 2023-August 2024

This collection comprises images and site records from a trial trench evaulation at the Cheshire Archives History Centre, Hoole Road, Hoole Bridge, Chester, Cheshire. This work was undertaken by Oxford Archaeology between September 2023 and August 2024. During the 2000s, the 19th century railway goods shed was converted into the Chester Enterprise Centre which was severely damaged by fire in December 2010 and was subsequently demolished in 2011. At this time, the building included the offices of LP Archaeology, whose archive was located within the basement of the building and was lost to the fire and demolition.The evaluation recorded the remains of 19th century walls and internal and external floors. The infilled basement was located and it was ascertained that the former LP Archaeology may have survived. If any further stage of construction works is planned in the future to the south-east of the current site, it may be that mitigation is necessary including the excavation, retrieval, and cataloguing of the former archive material.