Amazing photos show changing face of Chesterfield down the years
By The Newsroom
Published 25th Jun 2021, 15:05 BST
Chesterfield has changed a lot over the years – as these photos show.
They’ve been taken from the collection of images held by Chesterfield Museum and give a great glimpse into how the townscape has been changed by the decades.
We’ve put them alongside modern day shots of the same locations so you can see just how much things have altered.
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Here we seem the multi-storey car park that used to sit next to the Royal Mail sorting office next to the West Bars roundabout Photo: Chesterfield Borough Council (Chesterfield Museum)
The car park was demolished and the site lay empty for a few years, biut now building work has started on the new McDonald's drive-thru. The restaurant is due to open in the summer. Photo: Brian Eyre