UNDER CONSTRUCTION
This page will list all the Society’s History Papers. These papers, written by members over the last 25 years, are currently being converted to .pdf files so they can be read online or downloaded and printed out as an eBook. Unfortunately this is a great deal of work and will take some time for them all to be converted.
1 – The Zig Zag Railway
By L Garlick
2 – “Old Chesterfield” – Interesting reminiscences by Ex-Alderman Dronfield (Part1)
By Brian Austin
3 – Chesterfield’s Monster Cakes
By B Austin
4 – The British School, Hollis Lane
By Les Garlic
5 – St. George’s Works – One Department of T.P. Woods
By Brian Smith
6 – Chesterfield Waterworks
By S L Garlic
7 – “Old Chesterfield” – Interesting reminiscences by Ex-Alderman Dronfield (Part2)
By Brian Austin
8 – Brampton Enclosure Act 1815 – Details of the Award of 1827
By Mrs NK Webb – Introduction by Mrs M Hawkins (from Penguin Encyclopedia)
9 – Henry Priestly & his Brickworks
By Peter and Maeve Hawkins
10 – Who Lived on Low Pavement, Chesterfield?
By Brian Smith & David E Jenkins
11 – Who were the Ironmasters of North East Derbyshire – 1760 – 1830?
By David Jenkins
12 – Chesterfield Race Course
By Anne Stone
13 – The Chesterfield Silk Mill
By G Wraith and DE Jenkins
14 – The Great Lace-Working Machine of Chesterfield
By Brian Austin
15 – The Crich Mineral Line
By S L Garlic
16 – Chesterfield’s Last Town Crier
By Brian Austin
17 – Motor Omnibuses in Chesterfield & District 1912 – 1950
By Brian Smith
18 – Mr A Seaman’s Photographic Establishment (1886)
By B Austin
19 – The Hunloke Mausoleum at Wingerworth
By David Edwards
20 – The Whitecotes Colliery at Boythorpe
By Alec Jackson & David Jenkins
21 – Calow Iron Works, Coal Mines and Brickworks
By Brian Smith
22 – Random Recollections of Chesterfield – 50 Years ago
By “A Sexagenarian” (Specially written for the Derbyshire Courier)
(Derbyshire Courier 11th August 1877)
23 – A brief History of Bradbury Hall
By Maeve Hawkins
24 – Turnpikes South & West of Chesterfield – Part One: The Birkin Lane and Tupton & Ashover Trust
By Roger D Hartley
25 – Turnpikes South & West of Chesterfield – Part Two: The Chesterfield to Matlock Bridge & Rowsley Bridge Trust
By Roger D Hartley
26 – Chesterfield’s Elephant Stampede
By John Lilley
27 – WG Grace & the United South XI in Derbyshire
By Roger D Hartley
28 – Father Edmund Von Wurtzburg
By Sandra Struggles
29 – In & Out of Derbyshire. Boundry Changes to the Historic Shire
By Roger D Hartley
30 – John Ogilby, Master Map Maker
By Sandra Struggles
31 – Monkwood Colliery and Oliver & Company of Chesterfield
By Peter Hawkins
32 – Our Chesterfield Water
By Douglas Spencer
33 – The Bentincks
By Sandra Struggles
34 – The Old Shambles
By George Bailey
(Written in 1881)
35 – The Canal Tavern
by Philip Cousins
36 – Frederick Calder: Headmaster & Rector
By David Edwards
Frederick Calder: Headmaster & Rector
37 – Wagon Works Ltd. Chatsworth Wagon Works, Old Whittington
By Alec Jackson
38 – Lady Ottoline Morrell
By Sandra Struggles
