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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

In 2006 it was announced that the German supermarket chain were planning to build a store on Nottingham Road, and had started buying up properties, the following properties have now all been demolished and building has finally commenced in 2009

Opposite left the  former Ma Murfins general store, she never closed and she always greeted you with a smile, it later became the Chaddesden Garden Centre

Childs Play, Private day nursery on the right and on the left were two private dwellings that succumbed to the development

On the left a view looking down Nottingham Road towards Chaddesden Lane and opposite on the right was Ryans Yard

Opposite is the Abbey Veterinary Group on Nottingham Road, which survived the developers, only just ! and will now be adjacent to the new Lidl development which has finally been started below

Sadly now demolished number 57 Lime Grove - known as the Kraft Cheese House - was given away as a prize in the 1930s by Kraft Cheese in a competition to design a house to feature on its cheese slice boxes. A former worker at British Celanese, now Acordis, who was a workmate of the house's first occupant, Dr Langdon, confirms that the house was won in a Kraft competition.

Two views of Cherry Tree Post Office / Floral Creations, this is a very well known florist and the small vintage trade mark van can be seen delivering all over the city. Above left was the shop in 1988 and above right a few years later in 2002

A little further up the road towards Raynesway we have this curious stone in front of the bungalows, this is the memorial to Enoch Stone. A road is also named after him around the corner. The story goes; On Monday June 23rd 1856 the night of the anniversary fete of the Arboretum, a dreadful murder was committed near Derby, Enoch Stone, of Spondon was battered to death. Enoch Stone was a local musician and a very quiet man who was also slightly lame.

This atrocity happened on the Turnpike beyond the Butter Factory, the turnpike being Derby Road and the butter factory is where the Olde Creamery now stands, (shown above right.) The simple stone memorial was placed here by Enoch Stones friends, and the perpetrators of this wicked crime were never found.

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

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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