This travelogue of England starts in Liverpool, where the port function is one of the city's most important economic aspects. Its origins was as a fishing village. The port function took hold with the slave trade and associated product trade with Africa in the 1700's, and privateering in the 1800s. Although the city was bombed during WWII, the port area was virtually undamaged. The next stop is the old Roman town of Chester, which still has many of the same characteristics when chariots traveled on streets over 2,000 years earlier. One of those artifacts is the underground arcade which allows travel between store to store without having to go outside. The next stop is Coventry, probably the hardest hit city in all the country during WWII, and the country's center of the motor car and bicycling industries. One of the most famous stories associated with the city is that of Lady Godiva. Monuments in the outskirts of Coventry and in Banbury are famous not for their design, but their purpose, honoring cycling and in association with a famous nursery rhyme respectively. The next stop is Warwick, with its famous and majestic castle. The final stop is Stratford-on-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare. There are many memorials to him in the city, most notably the theater where his plays are reenacted.