It’s incredible to think how things have changed over the last hundred years!
If you enjoy this trip down memory lane, check out looking back at Dema Glass in Chesterfield down the years or memorable photos of Derbyshire pitmen and mining communities of times past
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5. Pleasley Colliery
This photo from 1926 ahows Pleasley Colliery back in operation after the General Strike. Photo: Hulton Archive
6. Hi-tech cops
Colonel Brook, Government Inspector of Constabulary, sending out the first message from the new police wireless station at the Police Headquarters in Chesterfield.. Colonel Brook opened the station, the first of many sub-stations, to be linked up with Nottingham, where the head wireless station is established. Photo: Hulton Archive
7. Lucky escape!
Passengers on a motor bus (Charabanc) in 1915 had a lucky escape after the vehicle went through the wall on Baslow Bridge, leaving the bus balanced precariously over the parapet. Photo: Heritage Images
8. Police film
Chesterfield police photographer PC Sanders shows some film to his assistant Police Constable Wheatcroft in 1935. Photo: R. Wesley