Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - March 2021

[Mike Costigan]

A view of Chesterfield town centre in the mid-1930s, with an RK saloon in view:


  jnct Knifesmithgate & Cavendish Street from Stevenson Place 1935-36.800.jpg (Size: 65.43 KB / Downloads: 645)

We are looking down Cavendish Street from Stephenson Place, with Knifesmithgate on the left. The building site beyond Greaves' building is the site for the new Regal cinema, which opened in October 1936, so my guess is the photo dates from 1935.

[Steve kay]

Ah, those good old days. Park one’s Seven by the sign “Pleasure of the Night.” By which of course I mean an early Measham.

[Tony Griffiths]

..and today...

[Mike Costigan]

I thought someone would have weighed-in with a list of the other cars in the photo by now! I've got my own ideas, but let's hear from you first.

[Mike Costigan]

No-one's offered any suggestions, so here's mine:

On the left, just poking its nose into the picture, an early Rover P2; then, behind the lamp post, a Morris Ten/Four, a Model Y Ford and an early Humber 11.4 or 12/25 behind the Seven, the Troy Laundry's van is an Austin Sixteen, or maybe even a 20/6, and with the benefit of the original print in front of me, I can say with some certainty that the car obscured on the right is an M45 Lagonda.

[Bob Culver]

hi Mike
The only one I could hazard was the Morris. There were a myriad models looking like the one identified as a Y. What is the clue?
Many older cars here, esp 1920s were robust American.