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Photo Gallery > Present Day Views of Spondon

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Church Hill

Photograph taken: 2000

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Hall Dyke

Looking up from Potter Street towards Chapel Street

Photograph taken: 2000

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Sitwell Street (looking towards the Homestead)

Photograph taken: 2000

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Village Hall

Photograph taken: 2006

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Village Hall

Photograph taken: 2006

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Rear of Sitwell Street

As viewed from the top of South Avenue.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Chapel Street

Viewed from the top of Hall Dyke

Photograph taken: 2006

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Sensory Garden, Chapel Street

The Village Improvement Committee redeveloped the former Chapel Street graveyard into a floral haven in 2006.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Sensory Garden, Chapel Street

The Village Improvement Committee redeveloped the former Chapel Street graveyard into a floral haven in 2006.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Sensory Garden, Chapel Street

The Village Improvement Committee redeveloped the former Chapel Street graveyard into a floral haven in 2006.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Springfield Primary School

Photograph taken: 2006

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Spondon Rail Station

Photograph taken: 2003

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Spondon Rail Station

Photograph taken: 2003

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Spondon Library

Photograph taken: 2006

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Spondon Library

Photograph taken: 2000

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The Enoch Stone memorial

Sited on Derby Road just passed Raynesway Island and on the corner of Oregon Way, the stone marks the spot where Spondon villager Enoch Stone was found severely injured following an attack in 1856. Enoch Stone died the next day from his injuries and the stone was later placed to as a memorial to one of Spondon's most infamous crimes.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Acordis

Viewed from the footbridge over Spondon Station

Photograph taken: 2004

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Spondon Cricket Club

The Cricket Club's new ground on Locko Road opened in 2005 after the club relocated from it's former ground on Royal Hill Road.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Spondon Cricket Club Pavilion

The Cricket Club's new ground on Locko Road opened in 2005 after the club relocated from it's former ground on Royal Hill Road.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Former Spondon Cricket Club

A shot of the pavilion on the old SCC ground on Royal Hill Road.

Photograph taken: 2000

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Fromer Spondon Cricket Club
Ground sign

Photograph taken: 2000

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S.C.C. Wall

The initials of Spondon Cricket Club are pretty much all that remain of the club's former ground on Locko Road/Royal Hill Road, now a new housing development.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Derby Golf Centre, Borrowash Road

Photograph taken: 2006

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Spondon Guide Hut, West Road

Photograph taken: 2006

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Dale Road Park

Photograph taken: 2000

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South Avenue Park

Viewed from Gravel Pit Lane towards the rear of Sitwell Street. The spire of St Werburgh's church can be seen on the horizon.

Photograph taken: 2003

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Locko Road
(leaving Spondon towards Oakwood)

Photograph taken: 2000

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Millenium Clock, Chapelside

Erected by the Village Improvement Committee to mark the year 2000 - although delays meant that the clock wasn't actually in position until November 2002.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Spondon War Memorial

Spondon's memorial tribute to the 103 Spondon men who bravely fought and died in the First and Second World Wars.

Photograph taken: 2004

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Spondon War Memorial

Close-up view of the World War I names

Photograph taken: 2004

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Spondon War Memorial

Close-up view of the World War II names

Photograph taken: 2004

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West Meadows Pond

The pond, on the West Park Meadows Local Nature Reserve (LNR), dates back to medieval times.

Photograph taken: 2006

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View of St Werburgh's spire from the West Meadows LNR

Photograph taken: 2006

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View of St Werburgh's spire from the West Meadows LNR

Photograph taken: 2006

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View of St Werburgh's spire from the West Meadows LNR

Photograph taken: 2006

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West Meadows Local Nature Reserve

Rape seed fields in full flower next to West Meadow LNR.

Photograph taken: 2006

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West Meadows Local Nature Reserve

Rape seed fields in full flower next to West Meadow LNR.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Willowcroft Road/Cambridge Street Park

Photograph taken: 2006

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New "Earlswood" housing development

Building by George Wimpey commenced late 2005 on the Nottingham Road site formerly occupied by the Teich Flexibles plant.

Photograph taken: 2006

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New "Earlswood" housing development

Building by George Wimpey commenced late 2005 on the Nottingham Road site formerly occupied by the Teich Flexibles plant.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Windmil Meadows development

Two of the first completed houses on Peveril Homes' new development on the former Spondon Cricket Club ground, Royal Hill Road.

Photograph taken: 2006

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Keepers Place development

The first advertising hoardings for Barratt Homes new apartment development next to the Old Angler's Yard on Nottingham Road.

Photograph taken: 2006

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"Welcome to Spondon" sign
(top of Dale Road)

Photograph taken: 2004




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