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Main contents: Chesterfield’s 1965 courthouse; some more about Chesterfield’s first bus service.
Main contents: Chesterfield’s various police stations; Chesterfield’s first motor bus service.
Main contents: A description of Chesterfield Market Place around 1805; a history of Hurst House.
Main contents: Queen’s Park early history
Main contents: Tapton House and George Yeldham Wilkinson
Main contents: Short history of Chesterfield’s cinemas; The Chesterfield Settlement; Secretary’s Office of the General Post Office War Memorial in Chesterfield
Main contents: The Donkey Racecourse; Chesterfield Settlement; Who wrote Ford’s History of Chesterfield; Elder Yard Chapel 1868.
Main contents: Elder Yard Chapel 1868; who wrote Ford’s history of Chesterfield?
Main contents: The Chesterfield Settlement; Celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Main contents: Harry Cropper 1882-1970.
Main contents: French Prisoners of War; Marks & Spencer in Chesterfield; World Cup tickets.
Main contents: The story of Annie, Catherine and Edward Churchill; Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin.
Main contents: Derbyshire Miners’ Convalescent Home and Holiday Camp at Skegness; Francis Henry Hart 1767-1867; Chesterfield Museum revealed.
Main contents: Chesterfield Men and the Military General Service Medal.
Main contents: Saint Helen’s House, Newbold Road; Spring Cleaning 1903 Style.
Main contents: Relaunch of Chesterfield and District Local History Society; New Square part 3; Death of Ian Thomason.
Main content: New Square part 2.
Main content: New Square part 1.
Main contents: Employment of Women in World War I; Chesterfield Street Names. (This newsletter duplicates the March 2021 issue).
Main content: Employment of Women in World War I; Chesterfield Street Names.
Main content: George Henry Miles; death of Brian Austin.
October/November 2020
Main contents: Chesterfield’s skating rinks; Frederick Staton – Chesterfield’s man of music.
Main content: Robinson’s Coronation Garden Clean-up; death of Alec Jackson; Centenary of Chesterfield Council Housing.
Content: Clay Cross Company and the Jacksons.
Main content: Chesterfield and the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway; death of John Lilley; report from society 2020 AGM.
Main content: the Brampton Mile in the late 1950s.
Main content: Frederick Turner and Frank Tory (architectural sculptors at Sheffield and Chesterfield).
Main content: Recollections of the 1950s restoration of the ‘CrookedSpire’.
Bellhouse Basin, Staveley, archaeological dig 2019; Chesterfield (Midland) Railway Station (short account).
Main contents: the Ashmore papers; Whittington House.
Main content: society 2019 AGM report.
Main content: the so-called ‘Old Manor House’ New Square.
Main contents: Lieutenant Percy Merrick M.C.; Moina Belle Michael – the poppy lady.
Main content: Chesterfield’s swimming pools.
Main content: Rutland Terrace, Barlow.
Main content: Notes of a Barlow well dresser.
Main contents: threats to Chesterfield Bowling Green; the Castle Inn, Chesterfield.
Main content: A connection between Bushey, Chesterfield and Scarborough.
Main content: survivors of the sinking of the Titanic known in Chesterfield.
Main content: a brief overview of Spital Cemetery.
Main content: Commemorating the Queen II’s Jubilees.
Main contents: society AGM report 20127; women’s’ football in 1917; Chesterfield at work in 1903.
Main contents: Ellis Travel Bureau; a new lease of life for the former St Helena School building.
Main contents: Cavendish Stamps & Model Supplies (The Terrace on Saltergate) “Then & Now”; The Greenhough (educational) Medallion.
Main contents: iodine diffusers; The Chesterfield Crow Cartoons – depiction of the 1868 election.
Main contents: The Chesterfield Crow Cartoons (continued); The Old Angel Hotel; The Verner brothers of Chesterfield – killed on the first day of the the Battle of the Somme.
Main contents: Chesterfield Peace medals of the First World War; weights and measures of the past.
Main content: where our logo came from.
Main contents: Chesterfield floods of 1880.
Main content: Chesterfield Parish Church – Medieval builders wheel; honour book.
Page last updated 16 April 2024.