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Location Profile: City of Haychester (In real life, Chichester in West Sussex) |
The ancient roman city of Haychester that appears in both Hainault and Holborn is based very much on the small cathedral city of Chichester in West Sussex
Chichester is dominated in West Street by the impressive Cathedral.
Much rebuilt and restored over the years (not least when the entire spire fell down in the eighteenth century) it is a major focal point in the city and looks particularly spectactlar when flood lit at night. It is also has a rare feature in that the bell tower (shown above right) is completely seperate from the main cathedral building. The base of the bell tower hosts the nice Cathedral Gift Shop by the way!
Directly opposite the Cathedral in West Street is the impressive Post Office building. The Post Office itself and indeed one of Stagecoach Southdown's Mercedes minibuses seen above both feature in Holborn.
Looking towards the centre, the medieval Market Cross can be seen. It sits on the middle intersection where the main shopping streets of North, South, East and West Street meet.
The Haychester head office for the Security Department in 'Hainault'
and 'Holborn' is loosely based on the city's Technology College with its distinctively
shaped front building.
Chichester's historic city centre Market Cross is seen again here in
the background. (The author is also a well known UK based transport photographer as well
hence Volvo Olympian No. 347 of Stagecoach Coastline Buses which features briefly in
'Holborn')
For more information about Chichester, visit www.chichester.gov.uk
More of my photography: Buses
and Railways