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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9. West Bars
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)
10. West Bars
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
11. Crooked Spire pub.jpg
Ye Olde Crooked Spire pub on Church Way, iin the 1940s Photo: Chesterfield Borough Council (Chesterfield Museum)
12. TIC.jpg
The pub building is now home to the Rectory bar and the foreground shows the Visitor Information Centre. Photo: Google