Photos include a robbery in Matlock, ice at Chatsworth and families playing in Queen’s park.
See if you recognise anyone or if anything has changed in these rare bygone pictures which have been taken from Chesterfield Library’s local studies collection, Chesterfield museum and our own archives.
1. View of Eyres
View of Eyres on the corner of Holywell Street and Cavendish Street from Holywell Street.c.1970s Photo: Chesterfield Library
2. Matlock Bath
Looking down and across Matlock Bath in 1972. Photo: Star
3. Bank robbery
Police keeping a watch after a bank robbery in 1970, at Midland Bank, Dale Road, Matlock. Photo: Star
4. Heanor grammar school
Heanor grammar school production of Patience, February 1970. Photo: George Eyre