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Latest Cestrefeld journal published

Our latest Cestrefeld Journal (number 9) has just been published. It contains the usual varied content (see front cover photo below) and it’s priced at £6 (£3 for members) for 38 pages. You can pick up a copy at our meetings or contact us on how to obtain a copy by post – secretary@cadlhs.org.uk.

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Coal makes last trip by rail

In this post we highlight the end of an era for coal by rail through Chesterfield which occurred in late June 2024. In a September 2023 post we highlighted the probable end of the transportation of coal for power generation along the Midland Mainline. Now that has actually occurred, with a journey from Doncaster to […]

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Music in Chesterfield – filling in the timeline

Our Chairman David McPhie writes. Last year I did an illustrated talk for CADLHS on ‘100 Years of Chesterfield Music,’ but quite seriously over-ran my allotted time span, covering the early Dance Band years of the 1920s, 30s and 40s, the Queens Park Hotel Folk Clubs during both Roger Buck and Graham Blankley’s eras, my […]

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August newsletter available

Our latest newsletter is available to download via this post – below.