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Allenton Shops

Allenton is a suburb of Derby, which is about three miles south of the city centre. It used to be called Allentown as it was named after Isaac Allen who built the first houses there in 1878.

A landmark of the area is the Spider Bridge, a footbridge over a roundabout, so named because it has eight 'legs' in four directions, which was erected in 1971.

• 1930s: Henry Royce is mourned
• 1940s: Derbeians love royal visits
• 1950s: City parachutist leapt into Suez Crisis action
• 1950s: Feeding the 1200 at Chatsworth Park
• Abba tunes kept Slix chicks’ sewing machines whirring
• Allenton's Broadway Cinema: The last picture show
• Baseball: Grandfather was a baseball catcher
• Bike ride home from Ley's was a spectacle
• Brewery worker worked with SAS sending coded messages from a candlelit Greek cavern
• Derby's lost cinemas were centre of our world in the 40s and 50s
• Derby Gas Light and Coke Company: Milestone for a woman in a man's world
• Derby cinemas in the 40s, 50s, 60s.
• Doing The Bumps with Prince Charles
• I bagged 13 goals and still got flack so I punched a spectator and was sent off
• Lounge bar of pub is now a bank
• Memories of Allenton & Derby
• Post Office: Snow fell during pit disaster
• Pub landlady who made her mark in a man's world
• Shelton Lock
• Stanhope, Aubrey - Mystery Man of Many Talents
• The heyday of Allenton's Broadway cinema
• Trolleybus era comes to an end September 9 1967
• WWII: Life goes on as war is declared

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