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Old Chesterfield / Trebor Sweets Factory
« on: November 14, 2014, 04:17:12 PM »
Hi ... Being newish to the Forum I'm not sure if the following is 'old hat' or 'new' ...

There is a website called 'Britain From Above' which has hundreds, nay, thousands of oldish pictures taken from the air.   On the Chesterfield section there are loads of pictures of the Spire and, of more interest to me, the old Trebor Sweets factory and surroundings.

I used to work for Bassett's of Liquorice Allsorts fame, for a long time, and I visited the old Trebor factory a couple of times after Trebor was bought by Cadbury's and merged with Bassett's to form Trebor Bassett Limited.  It was obviously quite old but manufactured sweets in the old fashioned way ... Great to see.

The Britain From Above site is available on britainfromabove.org.uk ... And is well worth a look see.

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Old Chesterfield / Re: St Johns Court on St Johns Road
« on: November 06, 2014, 09:36:35 AM »
Hi everybody and many thanks for your interest in my query.

I reckon Pastitman's got the answer ... It fits really well with the 1919 and 1965 map shown. 

The managers house is still there ... Looking rather lonely and rather jealous if the new apartments.

Thanks again ... I can rest easy now

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Old Chesterfield / Re: St Johns Court on St Johns Road
« on: November 05, 2014, 09:03:49 PM »
Hi again and thanks for the replies and map ...

On the map you can see a single house with a row of narrow buildings ... The house is still there and the apartments have now replaced the row of buildings ... And the larger building mentioned in the reply


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Old Chesterfield / St Johns Court on St Johns Road
« on: November 05, 2014, 07:10:56 PM »
Hi ...

There is a new apartment block on the part of St Johns Road near to the By-pass ... Which is called (unsurprisingly) St Johns Court.  I think the area is Newbold or possibly on the edge of Whittington.

Can anybody remember what was on the land before the apartments were built ?

This is just a general enquiry ... Hope somebody can help.

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