Chesterfield Art Deco, Plus….
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Trips at 10:00 on 18 December 2016
We stopped for the night just north of Nottingham and headed for Chesterfield in the morning as we knew from our previous visit it had a thriving street market as so many towns in England do.
Somehow I’d missed almost all the Deco in the town centre.
Greenwood’s:-
Note the beautiful detailing. Rule of three in the horizontal banding and great rectangle with diamond inlay plus horizontal banding throughout:-
McDonald’s has a hint of deco:-

Last time this was a nightclub called Escapade. Now it’s Department:-
Rule of three in the windows. Good brickwork:-
Again rule of three; at least in upper windows which don’t seem to have been replaced. Good horizontal banding:-
Deco corner site. Note the detailing between the upper and lower window layers especially on the unpainted brick gable:-
As is usual the town’s deco pièce de résistance is a former Burton’s (stitched photo) :-
In amongst all this modern stuff could be found Tudor style timbering. The Twelfth Century Royal Oak:-
And an old bus, destination Brampton. We’d pass through Brampton later:-









