Holywell Cross

A Memory of Chesterfield.

I lived on Devonshire Street just off Holywell Cross from 1950 to 1963 and I can still remember the area quite vividly. Devonshire Street was a short cut for workers walking to the Trebor factory. Our landlord, Mr Pashley, had a shop at the top of the street opposite the YMCA. At the bottom of Newbold Rd going towards Holywell Cross there was Cavendish Motors, Grosvenor’s tea rooms, Slacks solicitors, Turner’s sweet shop, a fish & chip shop, the back yard of the Shakespeare inn, and at the corner of Saltergate Damm’s fruit and veg shop.
It’s all gone now, of course, replaced by a car park


Added 12 October 2019

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The back yard of the Shakespeare Pub was home to the yellow ladders ,with red lettering of my fathers window cleaning business.
He was a very successful window cleaning contractor and cleaned most of the shop windows in the town with just one employee.
His name was Sidney Moss .
On Saturday mornings I went around the shops and collected the money for him and then counted it up in the Wimpy Bar ,when older we graduated to the Punch Bowl.
With a scrim leather and a bucket he ran a very successful round .
He expanded out to Matlock ,Ashover etc but the main income was the shops and factories of Chesterfield.
I still don’t know how he managed to complete all the work with one employee,Mr.Frank Green ,his faithful side kick.
Sadly he died a few years ago so we will never see the bright yellow ladders lashed to various large car roof racks again..
Memories of Chesterfield always bring in memories of my dad and my days of walking the streets of the town I loved.
Paul Moss
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