CHESTERFIELD PUBS: Albert Inn to The Avenue

RED PUBS are closed GREEN PUBS have had their names changed BLUE PUBS are still open

ALBERT INN, The; Sheffield Road, Stonegravels. Closed just before World War Two. Later reopened as "the Albert Social Club, " but now long gone. Albert Street has since disappeared under Newland Dale.

ALBERT INN, The; 6 Woodthorpe Road, Mastin Moor.

ALBION INN, The; 50/52 Eyre Street, Chesterfield.

ALMA INN, The; 126 Chatsworth Road, Brampton.

ALMA INN, The; Derby Road, Chesterfield. Closed in 1987 and became St John Ambulance County HQ; disappeared under the Alma Leisure Park, so at least the name lives on. The St John Ambulance HQ is now on the other side of Derby Road.

ALMA INN, The; Holywell Street, Chesterfield A previous name of "The Volunteer Inn".

ANCHOR INN, The; St Mary's Gate, Chesterfield.

Renamed "Chandler's" in 2000, no doubt as some acknowledgement to the US sitcom “Friends,” whose parallels with modern Chesterfield are few, if any. There has apparently been a pub on this site since the early 1700s. The photo above, that shows the Anchor (left) and the Galleon Club straddling Hollis Lane, presents a scene that has actually changed little in the years since it was taken.

ANCHOR INN, The; Factory Street, Brampton.

ANGEL, The; Derby Road, Chesterfield. A large pub on the edge of the St Augustine’s estate. Last time I was in there, there were full-sized snooker tables and a substantial function room. In 2010 it lost the battle to cheap supermarket booze and went the way of many an "estate" pub, and closed. It is now a Tesco Direct, where you can buy lots of the cheap booze that has accounted for many an "estate" pub.

ANGEL VAULTS, The; High Street, Chesterfield Presumably a colloquial name for the drinking part of the hotel below, or for part of it that survived the 1917 fire.

ANGEL HOTEL, The; High Street, Chesterfield.

Moved to this site from another one the top of the Market Place. Once the town's major staging inn, it was closed in 1915 and destroyed in a fire two years later. The site is now occupied by Hudson's music shop and Jessop's photographic store. Legend has it that Mary, Queen of Scots was once a guest. Angel Yard, which runs south from Saltergate, used to emerge into the Market Place at the Angel Hotel.

ANGEL HOTEL, The; High Street, Staveley. This became the Hotel Du Pod. I have no idea where the name came from!

ANGEL, The; Duke Street, Whittington Moor.

ANGEL INN, The; 49 South St North, New Whittington.

ARK TAVERN, The; Chesterfield Road, Brimington.

Situated on a busy junction in Brim. There is a tiny car park to the side. The original building was extended into a new bit to the left, as you look at the front of it, about ten years or so ago, but it has been done so well that you can’t really tell by looking. There’s a nice garden and play area to the rear. Some reckon this was once a Methodist chapel, but I think the former chapel is actually over the road from the pub car park.

ARUBA; Corporation Street, Chesterfield. Converted from Court's Furnishers, in a building that was originally White’s furniture & piano shop. Opened with pretensions to being a continental style “café-bar,” which is way beyond the needs of most of its clientele. Personal experience advises against parking your motor under its “beer garden” terrace off Tapton Lane. Large picture windows give a fine view of the binge drinkers of Corporation Street and they open in the summer to let the music out and the stench of shop-doorway piddle in.

AVENUE, The; 16 St Mary's Gate, Chesterfield. Formerly The White Swan. After a period of closure in 2002 it reopened as… The White Swan! Hopes that this interesting building might be saved for drinking were lost with its subsequent conversion to a Chinese restaurant. Check out the big gable, with its swan motif. Even a change of name did not prevent it being known locally (and inevitably) as “the Mucky Duck.”

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