19 great photos showing life in Chesterfield, the Peak District and Derbyshire in the 1980s

We’ve looked through our archives to bring you more great images from the 1980s, with pictures showing people enjoying carnivals, shopping and other events taking place across Chesterfield, the Peak District and north Derbyshire.

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...

17. Eighties Derbyshire

Loco no. 92214 nears the end of its six day journey from a scrapyard in South Wales to Peak Rail's base at Buxton's Midland Station in 1980 Photo: jason chadwick