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Memory Lane

Breadsall Station
Breadsall Viaduct
Bus Station
Carsington Reservoir
Cathedral Road
Cathedral Views
Cheapside
Cockpit Island
Cornmarket
Derwent Street
Duckworth Square
Duke Street
Eagle Centre
Eastgate House
Ford St / Agard St
Greyhound Stadium
Iron Gate
Leys Foundry
Market Place (Hotel)
Mansfield Road
Moor Farm (Oakwood)
Queen Street Area
Riverside Market
Siddals Road
Silk Mill Area
Sowter Road
Stores Road
St Mary's Chapel
St Mary's Church
St Mary's Goods Yard 1
St Mary's Goods Yard 2
St Peters Street
Toyota Burnaston
Victoria Street
Wardwick
Wyvern Centre

 

Around the Town

5 Lamps Area
Ashbourne Road Area
Becket Street
Bold Lane Area
Cheapside
Cornmarket
Derby Canal
Derwent St Area

Duke Street
Friar Gate page 1
Friar Gate page 2
Green Lane
Iron Gate

King Street Area
Mansfield Road Area
Market Place
Queen Street
River Gardens
Sadler Gate Area
Silk Mill Area

St James Street
St Mary's Chapel
St Mary's Church Area

St Mary's Gate
St Peters Church Yard

St Peters Street
Vernon Street
Wardwick / Victoria St

Willow Row Area
 

Derby Suburbs

Allestree
Allestree Park
Alvaston
Alvaston Park

Breadsall
Chaddesden page 1
Chaddesden page 2
Chaddesden page 3

Chaddesden Wood
Chester Green page 1
Chester Green page 2
Chester Green page 3

Darley Abbey
Elvaston Castle
Kings Newton
Locko Park
Mackworth page 1
Mackworth page 2
Melbourne page 1
Melbourne page 2
Melbourne page 3
Mickleover page 1
Mickleover page 2
Mickleover page 3
Oakwood page 1
Oakwood page 2
Ockbrook page 1
Ockbrook page 2
Spondon
Swarkestone
West End
Wilmorton page 1

Wilmorton page 2


Peak District

B29 Crash Site
Bleaklow
Cressbrook Dale
Derwent Edge
Dovedale
Kinder Scout
Lathkill Dale
Mam Tor
Monyash
Monsal Dale

Win Hill
 

 

Chaddesden - Page 3 of 3
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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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