[Westbars Spireite]

Where precisely would you place it? Somewhere in the car park beside the West Stand?

http://outdoors.webs...105069735SfrmEq

This is a great picture (love local history and pictures)

http://outdoors.webs...105069735DBUNez

What was on the site of the current Netto/Iceland retail park back then?

This post has been edited by Westbars Spireite: 02 February 2011 - 10:38 PM

[moondog]

Westbars Spireite, on 02 February 2011 - 10:36 PM, said:

Where precisely would you place it? Somewhere in the car park beside the West Stand?

http://outdoors.webs...105069735SfrmEq

This is a great picture (love local history and pictures)

http://outdoors.webs...105069735DBUNez

What was on the site of the current Netto/Iceland retail park back then?

Savemore supermarket me thinks

As for the Pavillion why have we wasted all that money on art when this could have been saved....

[Westbars Spireite]

moondog, on 02 February 2011 - 10:42 PM, said:

Savemore supermarket me thinks

As for the Pavillion why have we wasted all that money on art when this could have been saved....

Recall it as Presto in the mid 80s when I'd have walked down with my Mum. In my head I can recall the place being enormous and the whole of the current unit but it probably wasn't!

[moondog]

Westbars Spireite, on 02 February 2011 - 10:52 PM, said:

Recall it as Presto in the mid 80s when I'd have walked down with my Mum. In my head I can recall the place being enormous and the whole of the current unit but it probably wasn't!

It became Presto after Savemore, I remember getting a set of football stickers for my 1970 World Cup Album on a visit with my mam.

i think it did take up the full unit

[dalekpete]

Bing maps aerials still has the glassworks complex there. A comparison should be easy.

Chose "automatic" for the map and zoom in close to street level.

[JonB]

Played cricket a couple of times on there and inside that pavilion looked no different to it does on that picture!!

Good memories of that place mind you....hit my first ever 6 on that ground into the lamps car park quickly followed by another onto Sheffield Rd, then 6 wickets including 3 in 4 balls to help us win before going over the road to the pub to watch Ireland beat Italy in USA '94.

[Mr.Spireite]

When was the cricket pitch last used, it always seemed to be in great nick but never or rarely used.

[Paul Fisher]

Mr.Spireite, on 23 March 2011 - 05:01 PM, said:

When was the cricket pitch last used, it always seemed to be in great nick but never or rarely used.

It was used mainly by Glassworks Cricket Club and then when they folded, Whitt Moor Rose & Crown until Dema packed in (not sure of the time as I lived away from Chesterfield for that period).

I played on that ground in the early nineties. I bet Pete Whiteley did too for Old Whittington in the old North Derbyshire League.

[JonB]

I played on there in 1994 as i stated above against Dema and i dont think it was much after that when Dema became Whitt Morr R&C in the Derbyshire County League playing at Wingerworth due to the company and land shutting up.

[dalekpete]

Paul Fisher, on 25 March 2011 - 10:04 AM, said:

It was used mainly by Glassworks Cricket Club and then when they folded, Whitt Moor Rose & Crown until Dema packed in (not sure of the time as I lived away from Chesterfield for that period).

I played on that ground in the early nineties. I bet Pete Whiteley did too for Old Whittington in the old North Derbyshire League.

I played my first midweek game for DSS there 1991 having played there for Old Whitt the previous Saturday. I do not remember whether I played there in the eighties before I went to London.

[Wooden Spoon]

moondog, on 02 February 2011 - 10:42 PM, said:

Savemore supermarket me thinks

As for the Pavillion why have we wasted all that money on art when this could have been saved....

Presto?

[Bankrobber]

Mr.Spireite, on 23 March 2011 - 05:01 PM, said:

When was the cricket pitch last used, it always seemed to be in great nick but never or rarely used.

Dunno about the 'great nick' bit...always seemed to be really damp whenever i got to play on it.

Didn't they used to do the teas in the Rose and Crown at one point?

[Frank Thacker]

Westbars Spireite, on 02 February 2011 - 10:36 PM, said:

Where precisely would you place it? Somewhere in the car park beside the West Stand?

On Pete's link it appears to be in line with the boundary between the fire station and Fitness first, from a north/south point of view, while it seems to be in line with the join between the KM offices and the lower building just to their right, in east/west terms. I think that would place it on the pitch, just, near where the southernmost of the two passages from the HTM North concourse goes out to pitchside. I tried to have a bit of a look today and was surprised to see how far across into the stadium it would be; I'd have put money on it being in the car park.

[Westbars Spireite]

I may be off the mark but I reckon the last cricket played there would have been around 1995ish.

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[JonB]

Westbars Spireite, on 28 March 2011 - 09:47 PM, said:

I may be off the mark but I reckon the last cricket played there would have been around 1995ish.

That sounds about right to me.

[clarevoyant.]

JonB, on 29 March 2011 - 07:09 AM, said:

That sounds about right to me.

Time is playing tricks lads last league season at dema was 2000 before moving to Wingerworth

Another forgotten fact about the ground in the early 70's it was also used by the Taveners (Racecourse)CC (before their move to the ill fated "Mullen Park" a team consisting of town players of the time ie Randall, Archer, Clarke

Tea's in The R&C have been mentioned however I recall going into the works canteen on many occasions no buttered scones there

I feel that the pavilion would have been sited between the centre circle and the penalty area at the kop end. The top boundary edge was probably 6ft from the wall (current) on the Sheffield Road side. explaining the simplicity of chipping the ball into the fire station.
The old gate in the wall just to north of the now main entrance gives a good guide.

As regards the square well, the best I can say is that a previous poster states he got a 6 for and that about sums it up win the toss and bowl


Dema Reborn rightly states that the Iceland site was originally built by an ex CFC director Enest Brocklehurst for his motor dealership It bizarrely contained a large model railway exhibition

This post has been edited by clarevoyant.: 29 March 2011 - 09:46 AM

[JonB]

The dates above backs up what i've just been told after swapping a couple of emails with a guy at the Derbyshire County League. His records are slightly jumbled as having Dema playing on it during the 2000 season although the same guy did a book on all cricket grounds, past and present, in Derbyshire which has them down as last using it in '99 but he does admit something may have happened between the book being published and the 2000 season which saw it used for one last season. The 2001 season Dema had become Whit Moor R& C Cricket Club and were playing on the ground at Wingerworth near the shops.

It was me that took 6 on their once and if i remember correctly....we batted first and got a decentish score before skittling Dema for not many. I bowled from the end that could now be the Kop End and just on a length there was a ridge. If you pitched it your side of the ridge it shot up and if you pitched it just the far side of it then it shot straight through hardly bouncing. That day i managed to hit it fairly consistently one side or the other hence my haul of 6-34. Remember it well as they were my best figures for quite a few years.

[Mr.Spireite]

I played in the Bassetlaw & Sheffield Midweek Alliance leagues then so never played there.

[Westbars Spireite]

By 'Mullen Park' CV, are you referring to the place at Four Lane Ends? In recent years there have been thwarted attempts to resurrect it as a cricket ground.