EAGLE BAR, The; South Street, Chesterfield. 1980s conversion of Britt's ironmongers. Also known as Chester's in its short time, and was The Green Room before closure around 2008.
EARL GREY, The; Glumangate, Chesterfield.
ELM TREE INN; High Street, Staveley.
EVOLUTION; Saltergate, Chesterfield. The re-named Douglas Robson Bar. One imagines that if Midwest Christian fundamentalists ever visited the place they would concede that evolution was a reality, but console themselves with the idea that, among this bar's clientele, it was running backwards. October 2005 saw a revamp and name-change, to "The Loft." This later became "The Courtyard."
EXCHANGE INN; Holywell Street, Chesterfield. Formerly "The Hospital Inn" - next door to The Victoria Hotel and broadly opposite the Holywell Street / Durrant Road junction. Now under the "Doughnut" car park.
EXCURSION INN, The; Burlington Street, Chesterfield. A former name of The Burlington Arms.
FALCON INN, The; Low Pavement, Chesterfield. Later the Falcon Restaurant and Boden's chippy. Now the premises of the Barnsley Building Society. Tatler recalls "A fine old English hostelry, with big, heavily-raftered rooms, and gigantic fireplaces, and thick draperies of Yorkshire cloth to keep out the cold." The frontage looks to have been built out of a Nelsonian warship.
FLYING DUTCHMAN, The; Knifesmithgate, Chesterfield. Previously a private house where the novelist Harrison Ainsworth wrote the opening chapters of "Rookwood". Old Harry never featured strongly on the English “A” level syllabus, so I haven’t a clue if the book was any good, although this biography promisingly rates him as "The king of the historical potboiler." Swallow's store took over the site upon the pub's closure in 1910 and rebuilt it in 1930 but closed in 1970. A breathtakingly ugly modern building subsequently replaced Swallow's, and the site is currently occupied by an Oxfam shop.
FORESTERS ARMS, The; Glumangate, Chesterfield. A previous name of the Cavendish Hotel.
FORESTERS ARMS, The; Market Street, Staveley. On my first Sunday lunchtime as a Staveley resident I went into this place. Being a soft, shandy-drinking Southerner I was still rather baffled about men with eye-liner (coal dust, as I later realised) calling eachother “Duck.” I was the only one in the pub apart from a gang of half a dozen of the hardest-looking blokes you have seen in your life, around the juke box. Barry Sadler’s “Ballad of the Green Berets” came on, loud, and they all turned to stare at me. This was “In the Heat of the Night,” and I was Sidney Poitier. I left, quickly, and have never been back.
FORGE INN, The; 1 Station Lane, New Whittington.
FOUNTAIN INN, The; Saltergate, Chesterfield. Became "The Miner's Arms"; demolished to make way for "The Corner House."
FOUNTAIN INN, The; Chapel Street, Whittington Moor.
FOX'S (SPIRIT) VAULTS; Market Place, Chesterfield. Became "The Cathedral Vaults."
FREE TRADE INN, The; Saltergate. The 1881 census gives two entries and addresses for a "Free Trade Inn" - both on Saltergate - were there two of them, or had the census enumerator stopped at all the pubs on his round?
FREEMASON'S ARMS, The; Newbold Road, Chesterfield. Appears on the 1891 census as The Mason’s Arms.
FURNACE INN, The; 135 Derby Road, Birdholme. After a period of being boarded up following its closure in 2001 the building was converted into the "Chef de Canton," which defies its apparently French name by offering Chinese cuisine. The exterior has hardly changed at all and is still recognisable as a pub in the John Smith’s style.
FURNACE INN, The; Furnace Walk, Chesterfield Now The Unicorn Tavern.
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