Chester Rows east side of Northgate Street. Originally there were also Rows in Lower Bridge Street but these were blocked during the 17th and 18th centuries. As the ground floor buildings are usually lower than the street level, they are sometime known as "crypts". However, as the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner points out, this is not a strictly accurate description because the level of the floors of the buildings is a half-storey rather than a full-storey level below the street. Rows were built in the four main streets leading from Chester Cross, each of which originated during the settlement's early development. In
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding pudding. Potter had considerable experience drawing rats, mice, and cats before approaching "Samuel Whiskers" but the book is exceptional in her "oeuvre" for the many interior scenes at Hill Top and the character and personality of the domineering Samuel Whiskers. In 1933, Theron K. Butterworth published a dramatic adaptation of the tale as "Mr. Samuel Whiskers". In 1993, an animated film adaptation was telecast on the BBC anthology series, "The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends" with the voices of Rosemary Leach as Tabitha Twitchet, John Gordon Sinclair as John Joiner, Patricia Routledge as Ribby, Struan Rodger as Samuel Whiskers,