Chaddesden - Page 2 of 4
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Chaddesden (recorded in the Domesday Book as Cedesdene) and is one of Derby's largest suburbs, it is situated about two and a half miles east of the city. Chad (as the locals know it) has changed considerable over the years and is a mixture of private housing and council housing. The development was started in the 1950's and was needed as housing for Derby’s West End after the slum clearance schemes.

Factoids

• St Philip's Church on Taddington Road was opened by HM The Queen in 1957

• The Chaddesden estate was started in the 1950's and was the largest in the country at that time

On Mayfield Road there are three churches together, a Methodist chapel, a small chapel and a Jehovah Witness hall, just around the corner on Roe Farm lane is St Albans, Catholic Church, and not too far away on Reginald Road we have yet another place of worship, the United reform church.

St Albans RC Church on Roe Farm Lane, opposite was the residence for the Priest, this was  demolished in 2005 to make way for a new Revive health centre and car park, shown below, very bottom right is the Priests new residence, quite a bit smaller!

St Phillips Church on Taddington Road, opened in 1957 by HM the Queen, the view opposite is taken from the Penguin Pub, now boarded up, it's destiny unknown, the Penguin is shown below right, and below left is the local surgery

The Penguin Pub used to have the South Seas Discotheque in the extension on the building, which was a favourite haunt every Friday and Saturday night.

A View across the green to where the Penguin Pub once stood, taken in 2007, planning permission has been granted for a block of houses

The small shopping centre around the Penguin Pub, most are boarded up, only a few years ago this was a thriving centre, with the Penguin Pubs football team playing others on St Phillips Green.

The local Co-op is above left, and continues to trade, this store has been going since the estate opened, other names such as Lathams fish and chip shop, Moons the newsagents and Allsops the general store used to grace this once thriving precinct

Nottingham Road Cemetery, with it's two mortuary chapels, the cemetery opened in 1855, there are Cemetery's on both sides of the road, the pictures above left and right are the main entrance, whilst above centre is the one opposite

This side of the cemetery contains the largest memorials and also large family plots, a few are shown here, with the angel above haloed against the sun, the rear of the lodge is on the left

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