GREEN PUBS have undergone a change of name but are still open.
BLUE PUBS are open.
PACKERS ROW VAULTS, The; Packer's Row, Chesterfield.
PAINTED WAGON, The; Cavendish Street, Chesterfield.
Built in 1971 from part of the ABC cinema auditorium. In its heyday, it was comfortably the most ghastly pub in town. Offered abysmal Webster’s keg beer that was so weak as to offer a compelling defence to any charge of selling intoxicating liquor to minors. Could claim to be the first pub in the district to run “themed” nights. Monday night was fight night; Tuesday night was fight night; Wednesday night… you get the picture. After a change of name to “Spires Bar” it was absorbed into the Zanzibar Nightclub, and the Wagon’s front door was bricked up - thirty-three years too late.
PEACOCK, The; Low Pavement, Chesterfield.
This run-down old place was closed in 1974. Its medieval heritage was discovered by accident during the "Pavements" redevelopment of the early 1980s. It may well have been a guild hall. It became the Tourist Information Centre, but faced an uncertain future after the TIC moved to an award-winning wigwam (built on Roman ruins! How's that for tourism?!) up by the church. Happily, the building wasn't empty for long, and is now a cafe of some sort.
PEACOCK, The; 412 Chatsworth Road, Brampton.
PHEASANT INN, The; The Brushes, Sheepbridge
Probably the one given a Sheffield Road, Whittington, address in the 1901 census.
PHEASANT INN, The; Chatsworth Road, Brampton.
PHEASANT, The; Elder Yard Chesterfield.
Vanished when Elder Way was developed to link Saltergate and Knifesmithgate, around 1920.
PHOENIX INN, The; St Mary's Gate, Chesterfield.
Formerly the Spa Hotel. Refurbished and reopened as The Spa Lane Vaults, 2001.
PINK PANTHER, The; 23 Holywell Street, Chesterfield.
Formerly Baskill's Electrical store & EMEB showrooms. 2007 saw it closed and split into two places, "Madison's," and "Champagnes." Later alterations came only to the name(s) and the two bars are now "Boogie Nights" and "Back to the Nineties." Or Eighties. Hilariously, they run out one of those "crowd control" ropes from the front door at nights to keep the imaginary crowds at bay while imaginary VIPs stroll past the imaginary paparazzi.
PLOUGH INN, The; London Street, New Whittington.
Became The Bath Hotel.
PLOUGH INN, The; St Mary's Gate, Chesterfield.
Also known as "The Rose & Shamrock". 1901 census suggests a location between The White Swan and The Phoenix. Likely connected to Plough Yard, off Spa Lane. This points to a possible location under what is now the Chesterfield Crown Court.
POD, The; 2 High Street, Staveley.
Evolved from The Hotel Du Pod. Formerly The Angel Hotel.
POOLSBROOK HOTEL, The; Staveley.
POPLAR INN, The; 140 Church Street North, Old Whittington.
Closed in 2002, this fine and apparently viable pub was converted into a private dwelling, which is a monumental shame.
PORTLAND HOTEL, The; West Bars, Chesterfield.
Built (1899) on the site of The White Horse and The Bird in Hand. Became a Wetherspoon's house, whereupon the splendid panelled interiors were much buggered-about with, walls were demolished and the place’s character was rather carted away in a fleet of skips.
POST OFFICE VAULTS; New Square, Chesterfield.
Now "The Market"
PRINCE OF WALES, The; Beetwell Street, Chesterfield.
Closed during the 1960s, when much derelict property in the area was demolished. Was on the north side of the street, broadly opposite the current police station.
PRINCE OF WALES, The; 19 Old Road, Brampton.
PRINCE OF WALES, The; Mastin Moor.
PRINCE OF WALES, The; Sheffield Road, Newbold Moor.
PRINCE OF WALES, The; Manor Road, Brimington.
Previously "The Brimington Tavern" and "The Warren". Closed in late 2005/early 2006 and fenced off, ready for demolition. The site, with its substantial car park, is worth far more as housing than it ever was as a pub. There goes another local social amenity / meeting place. We are becoming a dormitory town for Sheffield, and no-one gives a toss. 2010: A clump of new houses now occupy the site.
PROSPECT INN, The; Hasland.
Now "The New Inn"
PROSPECT INN, The; Prospect Street, Stonegravels.
PUNCH BOWL, The; 31 Holywell Street, Chesterfield.
Built behind The Turf Tavern, which was then demolished. The exterior, which features pleasing friezes, was evidently been redecorated by tv’s “Art Attack.” Repainted in a slightly less garish fashion in 2007.
QUEEN'S HEAD, The; Knifesmithgate, Chesterfield.
As Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII stopped here on a number of occasions on his way to visit The Devonshires at Chatsworth. It remained closed for some years in the 1990s but opened again, briefly, before undergoing conversion into the town's first lap-dancing club in 2007.
QUEEN'S HOTEL, The; Hollis Lane, Chesterfield.
Closed in 1977.
QUEEN'S HOTEL, The; Sheffield Road, Newbold Moor.
Joe and Fred Davis, world-renowned players of snooker and billiards, grew up in this pub and played some of their earliest matches here. The pub was closed and demolished in the 1980s and the site (now a derelict Kwiksave) will soon be occupied by a Lidl, or similar.
QUEEN'S PARK HOTEL, The; Markham Road, Chesterfield.
The Queens Park Hotel was closed in 1997. One morning, Chesterfield woke to find it in ruins – it had been demolished in the dead of night so that traffic might move 100 yards further along the road before snarling up. Its sudden demise was met with uproar since it pre-empted attempts to have this building and its outstanding tiled interiors preserved - just. One day, the truth will out!! Its site is occupied by a flower bed at the entrance to the Ravenside Retail Park.
Click HERE to go to Pubs - R
2 comments:
The Portland Hotel was the first place I had an alcoholic drink.
In 1958 we had our Annual Union dinner of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers (ASLP) and although an under-age apprentice I was invited.
Drink flowed and Ernest Robinson, the firms Managing Director, paid for drinks all round.
My first taste of Beer and Whisky.
How I got home I never did find out - but it didn't stop me tasting the amber nector or the Scottish drink during the past 50 years or so.
I lived in the Queens Park Hotel (my father the lanlord) in the early eighties when we got up a petition to save the pub and the houses from demolition for road widening and tried to get the pub registered as a listed building only to be told by some nerd at the town hall that it was already listed. Imagine my surprise when it was demolished years later. Very very dodgy if you ask me.
Post a Comment