If you’ve been following us recently you will know that we’re about to publish our new book on the history of Hasland. It’s got a nice colour picture on the front but of what? In fact, it’s of Spital House, which stood on the east side of Spital Lane about midway between the junctions with …
If you are interested in finding out more about family history this might be a date for your diary. VCH will also be attending.
In this blog we’ll look at one of the unfortunate but less obvious results of the demise of Eyres of Chesterfield – the disappearance of its company history on their now removed website. But thanks to the Internet Archive at least part of the site has been preserved. This isn’t to detract from the problems …
Our new Hasland VCH spin-off book is to be published at a launch event on the evening of 15 June at the Devonshire Arms, Hasland. The book will be the first authoritative account of this large parish. Until 19th-century boundary changes, the township (later civil parish) of Hasland (near Chesterfield) included not just what people …
The final part of our concise overview of the Chesterfield tube works is presented in this blog. It’s an edited version from our forthcoming VCH spin-off book on Hasland, with some new information added about the concern’s more recent years. The1950s saw a programme of programme of modernisation and expansion. In 1950 a new factory …
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