During my evening in Chester, I walked along the city walls until I came to a place where the walls met the railway and the canal. This is a place where the terrain drops off quite quickly and, in order for the canal to make the descent, there is a pair of locks with a very deep drop. It was very dark in this area at night and there was no lighting. Nor was there any fencing around the locks. Consequently, I was very cautious as I explored them.

This was where modern camera technology came to my aid. I could see very little of what was around me, even as my eyes had adjusted to the low light conditions. My phone, on the other hand, did a phenomenal job of picking up the faint light that there was and stabilising the image to build up a usable shot. I can see things in these shots that I had no sight of at the time. I would like to go back in the day to see the locks in more detail. I did figure that, given how deep they were, you could come a cropper in there really easily if you weren’t careful.