We’ve dug out these images from our archive, along with photos from Chesterfield Library’s local studies collection, depicting what life was like in Chesterfield between 1900 and the 1930s.
5. Chesterfield in the early 1900s
Chesterfield gas works off West Bars around the turn of the century Photo: Chesterfield Library
6. Chesterfield in the early 1900s
A photo taken lloking towards New Square from West Bars in 1910 Photo: Chesterfield Library\CH Nadin
7. Chesterfield in the early 1900s
Spital Mill, Spital, 1907. The building was a tobacco mill, and at one stage was Mason's Cigarette Works Photo: Chesterfield Library\Nadin
8. Chesterfield in the early 20th century
Cavendish Street, Chesterfield in the 1930s Photo: Chesterfield Library\Seaman & so