Chaddesden
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Living in Derby, you tend to take the things we see everyday for granted. All the streets that you drive down as you go about your life etc. If you left Derby many years ago then you only have your memories of what these locations looked like. Well I have come up with a plan to try and film as many streets in the City of Derby as possible over the next few months and put them onto the internet for Derby ex-pats to enjoy. These videos allow you to take a virtual drive around the places you remember. All you need is a fast Broadband internet connection to view them.
Chaddesden streets featured are as follows : Hampshire Road, Hereford Road, Sussex Circus,Worcester Crescent,Wiltshire Road,Nottingham Road ,Chaddesden Park Road,Max Road,St Andrews View,Canterbury Street,Oregon Way,Enoch Stone Drive,Pine Close ,Chaddesden Lane,Maine Drive,Trenton Gardens,Parkside Drive,Sunny Grove, Eastgate (A52), Pentagon Island, Cemetery Hill, The Crescent, Walton Road, Ordish Avenue, Highfield Lane, Highfield Cottages, Margaret Avenue, Carol Crescent, Ashworth Avenue, Reginald Road South, Hanbury Road, Beaufort Street, Cornwall Road, Cowsley Road, Denbigh Street,Cardigan Street,St Mark's Road, Rupert Road, Curzon Road, Wilsthorpe Road, Chaddesden Park Road ,Matlock Road, Wood Road,Church Lane, Morley Road, Meadow Lane, Old Mansfield Road, Mansfield Road (A608).
Here are links to the three videos that feature many streets in Chaddesden. Each video comes complete with details of each street and the time code at which it appears in the clip. Click on more to see the street details.
Please note that a Broadband Internet connection is required to view the videos.
Chaddesden Streets video 1 Chaddesden Streets video 2 Chaddesden Streets video 3
Hope you enjoy the videos of Chaddesden as it is today.
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- Wilmorton: Area is blessed with charming buildings
- 1930s: Ring road taking shape
- Christmas: Pantos, Santa and all the trimmings
- Chrismas toys: Action Man met a smoky end
- Chaddesden: Village disappeared under urban sprawl
- 1960s: 'Old moon eyes' was racing hero
- 1930s: A year of tragedy and war worries
- Jobey, George: Signings were key to successful era
- Binge, Ronald: Ronald was British light music maestro
- Greengrocer: Grandad ran grocery store
- 1950s: Learning the ropes in the RAF
- Mothering Sunday: Church was focus for day
- WWII: Life goes on as war is declared
- Tissington: Hall and FitzHerberts at the centre of village life
- E W Grimes And Co Ltd: Grimes was the last of its kind
- 1920s: Dad's notebook told of plight of the poor
- Derby County: Bromages were all footballers
- WWII: Familiar faces at VE Day party
- G H Robinson's foundry: Fascinated by foundry machines
- 1950s: The League of Friends of Derbyshire Children’s Hospital
- John Port was not the only co-ed grammar
- Youth clubs: Youth clubs to '50s kids were a godsend
- Athletics: Supermum Mavis was family's driving force
- 1800s: Rioting over the right to vote
- From Bing to Bach music was the food of love and much more
- 1950s: Reminiscences of a Derby Post Office penny runner
- Felix Bus Services: Caring Felix buses dropped dad at door
- Freeman’s drapery and hardware store: Sister act, Mrs J and Mrs D, ran successful Derby hardware store
- WWII: Evacuated for six war years with no word from home
- 1940s: 60 years since misery of the 47 big freeze
- WWII: Stories from an air raid shelter
- Nottingham Road fire station: Fond memories of fire station from 1950-60s
- Transport History: Pictures tell story of change
- Fire service: Magical dance treat lit up night at fire station
- Trolleybus: 75 years since the first trolleybus ran in Derby
- 1940s: The night the bombers took Dad by surprise
- Street games: British Bulldog was a favourite street game
- James Smith And Co: I met my love by the factory door in 1963
- James Smith and Co: Factory filled with true romance and friendship
- 1960s: Ready to face a nuclear attack on Derby...or simply pull open the opera show curtains
- The Roundhouse: Locos should be brought back to the Roundhouse
- Post Office: Proud that four generations of family worked for the Post Office
- Derby
- Second World War
- Trent Valley boys football: An all-conquering side
- 1960s: Memorable times in Derby
- Offilers' Brewery - A lost Derby pint
- Ashbourne Road Skating Rink
- Tea cheer for tannery staff with leather in their souls
- First World War misery inspired injured soldier to become a doctor, easing the suffering of thousands
- Monocled doctor dispensed in a simpler age
- Cricketers' wives help club celebrate 150th anniversary
- Enjoyable days at Spondon House School in the 1940s
- Derby Racecourse: The rich history of Derby's lost racetrack
- Wartime 'holiday at home' better than exotic hotspot
- Tough 'old bod' Ned chose a hard but happy life
- 1960s: The great sounds and sights of the sixties will live on
- Playing in a silver prize band could be a dangerous affair
- Derby cinemas in the 40s, 50s, 60s.
- Trolleybus era comes to an end September 9 1967
- Rivers, Jacob
- Never a dull moment in 20 years at Assembly Rooms
- Trolleybuses offered us a great night out before the war years
- Call me Boss on the field and Brian off it, young man
- A waiting game as friends went to war, one by one...
- Nottingham Road Cemetery - Derbeians at Rest
- Half a century at the Midland Hotel
- Trolleybus services disrupted in Victoria Street
- When Jack Frost tried to stop 8.29 to Bristol
- Lost Derbyshire pubs - The Greyhound, Holbrook
- 1940s: Our head teacher bathed children in the cloakroom
- Lorry driver's load was a trailer full of tigers
- Pub landlady who made her mark in a man's world
- Wilmot, John Eardley - Chief Justice who owned Osmaston Hall
- The healthy children who were hospitalised for their own good
- Derwent Singers mark 40 years on a high note
- I saw the West End break up, family by family
- RAF hero survived war to be killed in mid-air collision
- My great-grandmother lived in Chaddesden almshouses
- Clarke, John Erskine; church man and pioneering children's book publisher
- 1970s: stories making the news in Derbyshire in 1979
- On the buses in wartime
- First World War: Five brothers who went to war
- 1980s: stories making the headlines in Derbyshire in 1981
- 1950s: Childhood memories of Gayton Avenue, Derby.
- Brown's secondhand shop remembered
- Gerard Street children's home remembered
- Railway: Loco Works Training School was second to none
- Ballroom dancing brought lifetime of pleasure
- When Derby's Gaumont cinema played host to a Hollywood legend
- 1950s: Childhood memories of Gayton Avenue, Derby - part 5
- 1975: End of an era as Morledge Market closes
- 1980s: stories making the headlines in Derbyshire in 1982
- Scouts deliver a festive service
- Loco Works Training School and the model railway engineering club
- Rowley's beauty contest remembered
- Tripping the light fantastic
- Breadsall Hill Toppers Jazz Band
- St Mary's Goods depot canteen
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