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General Category => Old Chesterfield => Topic started by: Pete on May 08, 2012, 06:01:57 PM

Title: Chesterfield Races
Post by: Pete on May 08, 2012, 06:01:57 PM

Right then poppy, where was this?  ;)

(http://www.ichesterfield.co.uk/images/chesterfield-races.jpg)

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: poppy on May 08, 2012, 09:03:16 PM

Stand Road? :)

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: Pete on May 08, 2012, 09:09:20 PM

Sorry poppy, I didn't mean to imply that I knew where it was - it was an actual question.  :-[

Anyone?

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: therealjr on May 08, 2012, 10:32:02 PM

I'd assume Stand Road as well hence the Racecourse pub but I stand to be corrected

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: ~Aitch~ on May 09, 2012, 12:04:04 AM

I don't know the precise location but I think it was about where the Cricketers pub now stands.  My great-grandparents rented rooms there and, on race days, my great grand-mother used to make and sell ice-cream around the course. :)

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: Alsatian on May 09, 2012, 02:24:47 PM

Quote from: therealjr on May 08, 2012, 10:32:02 PM

................ but I stand to be corrected

At your age you don't want to be standing for too long!  ;)

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: therealjr on May 09, 2012, 05:07:00 PM

Quote from: Alsatian on May 09, 2012, 02:24:47 PM

At your age you don't want to be standing for too long!  ;)

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Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: Pete on May 09, 2012, 05:07:45 PM

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: poppy on May 09, 2012, 07:03:00 PM

After a bit of research - Stand Road it is and like Aitch said where the Cricketers Pub is now. Taken in the 20's it shows "the finishing post, Judges box and "new" stand". Those people on the left look very high up to me. I don't know what health and safety would make of that! Apparantley the fun fair was there too :)

Title: Re: Chesterfield Races
Post by: Pete on May 09, 2012, 07:17:46 PM

Brilliant!

Thanks poppy and aitch - top lasses! :)