Home to the famous Brampton Mile pub crawl, coffee shops and boutique businesses, the road has never just been an entrance to the town centre, but a thriving community in its own right.
Many pubs, like the Terminus and Half Moon, have been and gone – but they’ve been replaced by newer names like Original Gravity and the GAS Bar.
Similarly, we all miss iconic shops like Johnston’s Ironmongers and W. English, but the road is still hope to scores of independent businesses and shops today.
Here we put the spotlight on the places and faces that called Chatsworth Road home over the years, as well as landmark buildings that are no longer with us.
There are even more pictures from yesteryear on the dedicated section of our website: www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/retro.
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2. Chatsworth Road
The Terminus restaurant on Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, in 1983. The pub was the start of the Brampton Mile and was later demolished to make way for housing Photo: Derbyshire Times
3. Bradbury Hall
Bradbury Hall was a very well known building dominating the lower Brampton area on Chatsworth Road. It became a bar and restaurant for a number of years and later evolved in to a nightclub. It has since been demolished and a block of flats have been built on the site. Photo: DT
4. Coliseum Cinema, Brampton
This picture is of the former Coliseum Cinema on Chatsworth Road, taken in July 1979. The building is now home to GAS Bar and Bites. Photo: Chesterfield Library\J Lilley