Amazing pictures show 'ghost town' Chesterfield - three years on from the coronavirus lockdown

By Brian Eyre

Published 20th Mar 2023, 15:06 BST

It’s three years ago this week that the then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson did what had once seemed unthinkable – and placed the whole country into lockdown

It was on March 23, 2020, that the PM announced the first UK lockdown, ordering us all to ‘stay at home’ in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

These photos, taken just days after the lockdown was announced, show Chesterfield turned into a ghost town – with locked shops and empty streets.

It’s hard to believe this all happened three years ago...