But see! yonder rattles a bus, with a party from the station, down to that first-class establishment, the ALBION HOTEL. This house has no superior in the city; for while of handsome external proportions, its interior arrangements have all been conceived with especial regard to the comfort and convenience of visitors. The _Assembly Room_ is the largest in the city; the other rooms are light and lofty; in short, under the zealous superintendence of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers, none who once make acquaintance with the ALBION will ever sigh for better or more comfortable quarters. Behind the HOTEL are extensive pleasure-grounds, as well as a verdant and spacious Bowling-green, to which there is a carriage entrance from _Park Street_. Only a step or two from the Albion, and on the same side, near the residence of MR. SNAPE, the eminent dentist, is _St. Olave’s Lane_, so named from the Lilliputian church, dedicated to that saint, at its south-west corner. This Church dates back earlier than the Conquest. The advowson in the eleventh century was vested in the Botelers or Butlers; from whom it passed by gift of Richard Pincerna, in 1101, to the Abbey of St. Werburgh. ST. OLAVE’S appears to have been always “in low water,” a _starving_ rather than a _living_; for in 1393, on account of its poverty, the parish was temporarily united with St. Mary’s. Down to the seventeenth century, however, it eked out a precarious existence; but after the close of the civil war, the ordinary services of the church were discontinued for about a century; when they were again resumed, until the final extinction of ST. OLAVE’S as a distinct parish, in 1841. In that year the Church was finally closed, and the parish united to that of St. Michael. The “powers that be” are fast allowing this ancient structure to develop into a ruin. [Picture: Lower Bridge Street, and Albion Hotel] Opposite to St. Olave’s is CASTLE STREET; beyond which, up a flight of steps, is a large tenement, of late years known as the _Boarding-School Yard_. This was in the seventeenth century the mansion-house of the Gamulls, a worthy Cheshire family; and here, on September 27, 1645, Sir Francis Gamull (Mayor of Chester in 1634) lodged and entertained Charles I. on his Majesty’s visit to Chester during the great Civil War. The house is now divided into tenements; but several of the rooms still retain evidence of their original splendour. Still farther down, we have upon the left _Duke Street_, and on the right _Shipgate Street_, through which, in old time, the citizens used to pass by way of the Ship Gate, across the river, into Handbridge. It leads also to St. Mary’s Hill; on the summit of which, half-embowered in trees, we are introduced to the ancient Church of ST. MARY.