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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

Below is the newly named School, Da Vinci, community college which was previously called High View, and prior to that it was the Henry Cavendish grammar school , and during that era it was one of Derby's top grammar schools.

Not quite in Chaddesden, but just up the road in Breadsall Hill Top we have the boarded up Rocket Pub, it's future looks uncertain, in it's past this pub used to have live bands and was very popular on a Friday and Saturday night

Do to the population boom in the 1940’s around two million houses were needed by the end of the decade. Prefabs were constructed around the Gertrude Road area, steel was used for the outer walls and asbestos sheets for the roofs.

Originally designed to last for only 10 years some fifty years later there are still a few original ones standing, whilst most were only refurbished back in 2004!, which entailed building an outer shell out of brick and removing the steel framework.

Italian Prisoners of War built the foundations of these properties, as well as working on the local allotments, they also made toys that they gave to local children.

The Spinning Wheel pub on Woods Road, and below is Lees Brook School, formally Olive Eden Secondary School, the name change occurred in 1974, as Lees Brook runs through the grounds, an interesting fact on this School, is it has the largest land bank in the local LEA

A burnt out wreck on the fields near to the school

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