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Hollis & Brommel(?)
« on: October 26, 2013, 01:30:23 PM »
Rare photo, clipped from video. Sounds like Hollis and Brommel, but video voice over not too clear.

But where was it?

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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2013, 01:44:50 PM »
It looks a bit like the Blue Bell pub which Fly said is closing?
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2013, 02:20:28 PM »
Not in the town centre.
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2013, 04:10:23 PM »
It was either opposite the end of Park Road or possibly Boythorpe Road. I have seen an obscured image of it before but have never got it into perspective. Definitely near the park though! :)
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2013, 04:25:18 PM »
How about the bottom of Park Road? On the corner of what is now Park Road and Markham Road?
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2013, 04:52:50 PM »
Def not Blue Bell, no cinema at the side.
Could be bottom of park road, but, if you look at top right of the picture, there is a corner
of a building, so that could rule out park road.
mmm... good one that.
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2013, 05:21:52 PM »
I had a look on http://www.old-maps.co.uk, thanks guys  :)

Found this on the 1962-67 map of the Park Rd area. Deffo a big curved building on that corner.

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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2013, 06:13:03 PM »
I'm pretty sure that it is Park road/ Markham Road. It was on the route of the peace celebration walk from the town centre to the park in 1919. They came though town, down the side of the Portland hotel and into the park. So I reckon Fly's map is right. i'll try and enlarge it and take another look.
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2013, 06:34:20 PM »
This is from a 1914 Ordnance Survey map - there seems to be someting in front of the round building that had been removed before the picture was taken.

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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2013, 07:04:35 PM »
That looks abit too round and possibly to do with the railway, do you think? Perhaps it's on the way to the Boythorpe Road entrance to the park? About where there hideous car park is that belonged to the AGD. Do you think this could be it?
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2013, 07:12:49 PM »
Pretty certain now it's Park Road - check out the video I posted earlier today. It's about 1:00:50 on the timeline. I never paid any attention to the image after the picture I grabbed, but the narrator mentions the Whites van.
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2013, 07:26:24 PM »
Is it from one of the videos Dave posted on Old Chesterfield Pics on Facebook?
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2013, 08:01:05 PM »
Brilliant. Got it now. Thanks Pete
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2013, 08:09:55 PM »
Its from one of the best videos I've seen about Chesterfield - if anyone local, old or interested in old Chesterfield hasn't watched it yet - do so, its excellent. :)
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Re: Hollis & Brommel(?)
« Reply #14 on: November 20, 2013, 06:19:56 PM »
The ' Round Thing ' is a railway turntable...take a look at the Tenth Photo..taken
in 1938

http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/asearch?search=Chesterfield
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