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Living in Derby, you tend to take the things we see everyday for granted. All the streets that you drive down as you go about your life etc. If you left Derby many years ago then you only have your memories of what these locations looked like. Well I have come up with a plan to try and film as many streets in the City of Derby as possible over the next few months and put them onto the internet for Derby ex-pats to enjoy. These videos allow you to take a virtual drive around the places you remember. All you need is a fast Broadband internet connection to view them.

Chaddesden streets featured are as follows : Hampshire Road, Hereford Road, Sussex Circus,Worcester Crescent,Wiltshire Road,Nottingham Road ,Chaddesden Park Road,Max Road,St Andrews View,Canterbury Street,Oregon Way,Enoch Stone Drive,Pine Close ,Chaddesden Lane,Maine Drive,Trenton Gardens,Parkside Drive,Sunny Grove, Eastgate (A52), Pentagon Island, Cemetery Hill, The Crescent, Walton Road, Ordish Avenue, Highfield Lane, Highfield Cottages, Margaret Avenue, Carol Crescent, Ashworth Avenue, Reginald Road South, Hanbury Road, Beaufort Street, Cornwall Road, Cowsley Road, Denbigh Street,Cardigan Street,St Mark's Road, Rupert Road, Curzon Road, Wilsthorpe Road, Chaddesden Park Road ,Matlock Road, Wood Road,Church Lane, Morley Road, Meadow Lane, Old Mansfield Road, Mansfield Road (A608).

Here are links to the three videos that feature many streets in Chaddesden. Each video comes complete with details of each street and the time code at which it appears in the clip. Click on more to see the street details.

Please note that a Broadband Internet connection is required to view the videos.

Chaddesden Streets video 1 Chaddesden Streets video 2 Chaddesden Streets video 3

Hope you enjoy the videos of Chaddesden as it is today.

• 1800s: Rioting over the right to vote
• 1920s: Dad's notebook told of plight of the poor
• 1930s: A year of tragedy and war worries
• 1930s: Ring road taking shape
• 1940s: 60 years since misery of the 47 big freeze
• 1940s: The night the bombers took Dad by surprise
• 1950s: Learning the ropes in the RAF
• 1950s: Reminiscences of a Derby Post Office penny runner
• 1950s: The League of Friends of Derbyshire Children’s Hospital
• 1960s: 'Old moon eyes' was racing hero
• 1960s: Memorable times in Derby
• 1960s: Ready to face a nuclear attack on Derby...or simply pull open the opera show curtains
• 1960s: The great sounds and sights of the sixties will live on
• A waiting game as friends went to war, one by one...
• Ashbourne Road Skating Rink
• Athletics: Supermum Mavis was family's driving force
• Binge, Ronald: Ronald was British light music maestro
• Call me Boss on the field and Brian off it, young man
• Chaddesden: Village disappeared under urban sprawl
• Chrismas toys: Action Man met a smoky end
• Christmas: Pantos, Santa and all the trimmings
• Cricketers' wives help club celebrate 150th anniversary
• Derby
• Derby County: Bromages were all footballers
• Derby Racecourse: The rich history of Derby's lost racetrack
• Derby cinemas in the 40s, 50s, 60s.
• E W Grimes And Co Ltd: Grimes was the last of its kind
• Enjoyable days at Spondon House School in the 1940s
• Felix Bus Services: Caring Felix buses dropped dad at door
• Fire service: Magical dance treat lit up night at fire station
• First World War misery inspired injured soldier to become a doctor, easing the suffering of thousands
• Freeman’s drapery and hardware store: Sister act, Mrs J and Mrs D, ran successful Derby hardware store
• From Bing to Bach music was the food of love and much more
• G H Robinson's foundry: Fascinated by foundry machines
• Greengrocer: Grandad ran grocery store
• Half a century at the Midland Hotel
• James Smith And Co: I met my love by the factory door in 1963
• James Smith and Co: Factory filled with true romance and friendship
• Jobey, George: Signings were key to successful era
• John Port was not the only co-ed grammar
• Lost Derbyshire pubs - The Greyhound, Holbrook
• Monocled doctor dispensed in a simpler age
• Mothering Sunday: Church was focus for day
• Never a dull moment in 20 years at Assembly Rooms
• Nottingham Road Cemetery - Derbeians at Rest
• Nottingham Road fire station: Fond memories of fire station from 1950-60s
• Offilers' Brewery - A lost Derby pint
• Our head teacher bathed children in the cloakroom
• Playing in a silver prize band could be a dangerous affair
• Post Office: Proud that four generations of family worked for the Post Office
• Pub landlady who made her mark in a man's world
• Rivers, Jacob
• Second World War
• Street games: British Bulldog was a favourite street game
• Tea cheer for tannery staff with leather in their souls
• The Roundhouse: Locos should be brought back to the Roundhouse
• Tissington: Hall and FitzHerberts at the centre of village life
• Tough 'old bod' Ned chose a hard but happy life
• Transport History: Pictures tell story of change
• Trent Valley boys football: An all-conquering side
• Trolleybus: 75 years since the first trolleybus ran in Derby
• Trolleybus era comes to an end September 9 1967
• Trolleybus services disrupted in Victoria Street
• Trolleybuses offered us a great night out before the war years
• WWII: Evacuated for six war years with no word from home
• WWII: Familiar faces at VE Day party
• WWII: Life goes on as war is declared
• WWII: Stories from an air raid shelter
• Wartime 'holiday at home' better than exotic hotspot
• Wilmorton: Area is blessed with charming buildings
• Youth clubs: Youth clubs to '50s kids were a godsend

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