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| Chapel Street/Chapel Lane
View down Chapel Street from the end of Chapel Lane. On the left is the original village Methodist Chapel, now the site of the Jehovah's Kingdom hall.
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
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| Chapel Street Methodist Chapel
Another view of Chapel Street showing the Methodist Chapel in more detail
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
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| Sitwell Street
View up Sitwell Street towards the White Swan pub at the end of the road. To the right of the foreground is the Blacksmiths.
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
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| St Werburgh's Church
A view down Church Street to St Werburgh's.
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
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| Derby Road
View of the Derby Road crossroads with Lodge Lane and Station Road. The old thatched Spondon Lodge is on the right.
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
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| The Homestead
The Homestead overlooks the beginning of the building of houses on Willowcroft Road.
Photograph taken around: 1922/3 |
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| Moor Street
View of Moor Street shows a bicycle propped up outside the old village post office.
Photograph taken around: 1920s/30s |
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| Moon Hotel/Station Road
Hundreds of British Celanese workers stream over the canal bridge on Station Road and passed (or, more likely, into!) the Moon Hotel.
Photograph taken around: 1930s |
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| Bob Sims' Shop, Sitwell Street
This photo from the 1940s shows Bob Sims stood outside his Spondon shop, which stood where DJT Hardware now is on Sitwell Street (back when it was a single-storey building). Photo very kindly supplied by Stuart Sims.Share your memories of this photo and Bob Sims on the Spondon message board. |
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| Bob Sims' Taxi
Bob Sims also ran a taxi and delivery service around Spondon. Again, this photo is from the 1940s and kindly supplied by Stuart Sims.Share your memories of this photo and Bob Sims on the Spondon message board. |
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| Dick Lane - Spondon Milkman
This photo from 1929 shows a 14-year-old Dick Lane delivering milk, bread and other groceries around Spondon. Photo kindly supplied by Peter Lane. |
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| 1 Sitwell Street
Former residence of the Spondon Doctor, this home sat on the hill across from St Werburgh's - now the site of four bungalows.
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
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| Leech Neal Colour Works
The colour works plant spanned a huge area of land in Spondon around the Megaloughton Road area now occupied by Asda and Looms scrap yard. Some of the existing Looms' buildings were originally part of the works.
Photograph taken around: 1935 |
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| Leech Neal Colour Works
A wider view of the colour works plant showing the size of the plant. Part of the sewage works can also be seen in the foreground.
Photograph taken around: 1935 |
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| Cambridge Street
Viewed from the corner of the junction with Willowcroft Road
Photograph taken around: Late 1920s |
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| Nottingham Road
Viewed from the bottom of Willowcroft Road.
Photograph taken around: early 1920s |
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| Spondon Hall
Photograph taken around: early 1930s |
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| Station Inn
Workers enjoy a drink in the Station Inn which was sited next to, and replaced with, the Moon Hotel in 1929. The Inn had a special license to allow it to open at irregular times to coincide with the end of shifts at British Celanese.
Photograph taken around: 1920s |
