See if you can spot anyone you know in these photos taken from Chesterfield Library’s local studies collection, as we as our own archive, depicting what local life was like in during the eighties.
From royal visits and chariot races to marching for jobs and long-lost shops, this is what the decade looked like...



15. Eighties Derbyshire
A sad day for workers at Pye Hill Colliery on the mine's last day in 1985. Photo: Eighties Derbyshire

16. Eighties Derbyshire
Chesterfield's Knifesmithgate - including the Tuminose takeaway which was always busy after a night out in Chesterfiekd during the eighties! Photo: John Stanley
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