

Great pictures show what life was like in Chesterfield, north Derbyshire and the Peak District in the 1970s
See if you can spot anyone you know from the photos, taken from Chesterfield Library’s local studies collection and our own archives.

1. Seventies Derbyshire
Guides pictured at the Peak 1974 Rally at Chatsworth. Photo: Sheffield newspapers

2. Seventies Derbyshire
Staveley WRVS members who attended the annual Derbyshire WRVS rally at Bolsover Castle in 1979 Photo: ©Sheffield Newspapers Ltd

3. Seventies Derbyshire
Work is almos complet on the demolition of the Horns bridge viaduct in February 1974. Photo: Sheffield Star

4. Seventies Derbyshire
Chesterfield FC team 30th July 1970: fDavid Pugh, Peter Foley, Kevin Randall, John Archer (Captain) Roy Hickton, Geoff Martin and Tony Moore bl-r: Albert Holmes, Charlie Bell, Ernie Moss, Mrtin Wright, Alan Humphries, Albert Phelan, John Lumsden, Tommy Fenoughty and John Moyse. Photo: Sheffield Newspapers