tarboat's photos with the keyword: chesterfield

Memories of the grocer in a Chesterfield shop doorway.

Water tower at Walton Works, Brampton, Chesterfield. The Walton Works site was first developed as a 'candlewick and tape' factory. In 1896 it was purchased by Robinson and Co. for the manufacture of lint and later for antiseptic dressings, cardboard cartons and cotton wool. In the 20th century the works was enlarged with new buildings. It is listed Grade II*.

Built as part of the extension of Knifesmithgate in 1926, architects Wilcockson & Cutts, for the Home Brewery of Nottingham. The nearer building is the former Queen's Head Hotel whilst the further end incorporated the car showrooms of Service Motors. There are a large number of black and white buildings in the town dating from the inter-war period. This is due to improvements to the town centre following the 1914 Chesterfield Corporation Act which involved widening of streets and removal of slum property. The breweries owning many of the public houses in the town centre were heavily involved in this redevelopment and their architects largely favoured the mock-Tudor style. Wilcockson and Cutts was employed by the local Chesterfield and Brampton Breweries, Home Brewery of Nottingham and Scarsdale Brewery, as well as being responsible for a few other buildings. James R Wigfull, architect to Stones Brewery of Sheffield, was responsible for around a dozen of their public houses in the town.

The Portland Hotel in Chesterfield was built in 1899 for William Stones Ltd of Sheffield, taking advantage of the trade generated by the Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway whose Market Place station was adjacent.

The Sun Inn on West Bars in Chesterfield was built in 1912 for the Brampton Brewery. The use of terracotta faience is spectacular if rather excessive.

The Punch Bowl, 31 Holywell Street, Chesterfield, was designed by architects Wilcockson and Cutts. This 1931 rebuild of an earlier pub was undertaken for by the Chesterfield Brewery Company which was soon after taken over by Mansfield Brewery. The frontage retains the Chesterfield Brewery Co emblem and lots of coloured glass whilst the date is shown on the rainheads.

Spotted in Chesterfield protecting the corner of the churchyard wall. Spital Works will have made this in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The Punch Bowl, 31 Holywell Street, Chesterfield, designed by architects Wilcockson and Cutts. The pub was rebuilt in 1931 by the Chesterfield Brewery Company which was soon after taken over by Mansfield Brewery. The Punch-in-a-bowl in the window over the door was the trade mark of T P Wood, wine and spirit merchant, whose business was taken over by Chesterfield Brewery.

Leaded light over door at the White Swan, now Pig & Pump, Chesterfield.

An unusual name for a brick manufacturer. This one is from the Ashgate area on the west side of Chesterfield. The works was established in the early years of the twentieth century and was closed by the 1950s.