It's the oldest functioning racecourse in England.

So these pictures of Chester Racecourse from the 1960s seem almost recent when you consider it's been around since the early sixteenth century.

And since it's racing season, we've delved into the archives to uncover these images of Chester Races back in the 1960s, at a time when Chester was going through a period of great change - not least in the form of construction, when so many of the buildings we know today were built.