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Brampton Manor
Brampton Manor The following account of Brampton Manor has been compiled from material made available by the Victoria County History for Derbyshire, which has been assembled for a planned future publication on the parish of Brampton. It is being presented in this form to assist Chesterfield Borough Council in determining a current planning application to…
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THE CHESTERFIELD HOTEL
Chesterfield and District Civic Society A future for the site of the Chesterfield Hotel This post can be downloaded as a PDF here Background The Chesterfield Hotel was built in 1876–7, a few years after the Midland Railway rebuilt its station at Chesterfield on its present site (a short distance to the north of the…
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Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at the St. Thomas’s Centre on Thursday September 5th. The Chairman and Secretary presented their reports, and the Committee reconfirmed with the following changes. Daniel Botham has stepped down, and Darrell Clark will now take his place at the monthly meeting. The brief meeting was followed…
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NOTICE OF CIVIC SOCIETY ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General meeting will be held on Thursday 5th Sept. at 7.30pm in the Studio at the St.Thomas Centre, Chatsworth Road. All members and any prospective members are invited to attend. Our talk is from Dr. Hugh Ellis on ‘Chesterfield: Cradle of the Garden City Movement’. Our distinguished speaker is the Policy Director of the…
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THE CADFHS LOCAL HISTORY FAIR
This week saw the launch of our Chairman’s latest book ‘Chesterfield Streets and Houses’ on Thursday, and it was featured also at the Chesterfield and District Family History Society Fair on Saturday. The Civic Society featured our Blue Plaques on our display, standing with the Derbyshire Record Society and Victoria History. The Fair was well…
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A Long-Awaited Book Launch
Chesterfield Streets and Houses By Philip Riden, Chris Leteve and Richard Sheppard A major new study of how the town centre has evolved, street by street and house by house. Come to the launching on 16 May 2019 and get this new 200-page, colour-illustrated hardback at the offer price of £15. Chesterfield evolved in the…
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Chesterfield and the Co-operative Movement.
On Wednesday 20th March a Blue Plaque was unveiled at West Bars to mark the town’s historic links to the the Co-operative Movement. Members of the Civic Society attended both this ceremony and the re-dedication of the the Funeral Home after its recent renovation. More photos can be found below, and a detailed report of…
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HS2 Meeting – Thursday 28th February
Chesterfield Civic Society HS2 Debate Over 30 members and guests met at St Thomas’s church centre on February 28 for a Civic Society discussion meeting on ‘Do we want HS2 in North East Derbyshire?’. Andrew Pritchard, representing East Midland Cities and Transport for the East Midlands, outlined the strategic case for the north-eastern leg of…
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Public Meeting and AGM – 27th September 2018
The society met at the St Thomas’ Centre for a talk by Paul Staniforth on Development Management and Conservation within the Borough. Although understandably this could cover only items within the public domain he managed to include the major town centre developments, and submitted affably to some fairly tough questioning, particularly on that perennial favourite…
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Chesterfield Museum Local History Day
On Saturday we were at Chesterfield Museum for the annual Local History Fair. It was an excellent event, and we thank the Museum for hosting it. Here are a few photos from the day. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] As it was the first day of the Chatsworth Road Exhibition at the Museum we…
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