This delightful picture has been kindly loaned by Mrs Sproston and Mr Edge of Littleton, and shows the scene outside one of the several Post Offices that existed in Pepper Street, run by the Johnson and Morgan Families between 1819- 1960's. This house Two Gables is also interesting in that it was almost certainly designed by John Douglas, architect to the Grosvenor Estate. It was built by Thomas Mayers & Co. Builder & Contractor from Christleton, who worked for many years with the estate on building projects in Chester, as seen in St Werburgh Street, at The Cross, and especially in the large black & white frontage of St Michael's Arcade in Bridge Street. John Douglas was the main architect of the black & white revival between 1890/1905 promoted by the Westminster family, and if you look at Two Gables you will see great similarities between the styles of buildings mentioned above. The arcade frontage was a very special case, and this huge building was dismantled and rebuilt by the Mayers firm in the new black & white style, only three years after it had been erected in white marble. Even today if you look at the frontage of the building at the foot of the steps in Bridge Street, you will still find traces of the marble, and of course the interior of the arcade is still in its original form.