Chesterfield's Yards became built up in the 18th and 19th centuries with cottages, workshops and outhouses, accessed through archways from the main street.
Cottage industries such as stocking knitting, hat and glove making and gingham weaving made the Yards workplace for many people in the Yards at this time. Theatre Yard was names after the theatre built in the late 18th century. It was closed in the 1870s and was then used to house the generators which housed the first street lighting in the UK.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the residents were re-housed onto new estates and in the 1980s the yards shopping development was created, restoring historic buildings to house purpose built yards. Text from HERE
8 comments:
have you cut out the building tops or is it a trick of the light? whatever it's very effective xxx
It's my phone cam overcompensating for the sky
Neat but...
Where is the falcon?
what a nice weirdly constructed collage.
Nat - *laughs* I shall have to look up the history of the yard.
Hyde - Thanks - a lot of work goes into these :)
I'm still amazed. Just lovely.
This is one of the best, Rach imho. Liked the little history lesson!
Thanks Gina :)
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