Hadfield Town Chesterfield ?

[julianb]

I have passed on your remarks re N/Wingfield website, it is going to be moved to another host with no popups

Good stuff.  Thanks.  RootsChat has been putting a bit of a business its way recently.

[omskirk]

Did your Woodward in Notts come from Bulwell area, Like my 5x grandmother

[julianb]

Did your Woodward in Notts come from Bulwell area, Like my 5x grandmother

No, from Ruddington, and prior to that Kinoulton.  Sorry 

[dusty_streets]

Now then, I'll throw my stick into the fire 

This is what I can recall right now but I can't swear on it right now.

I believe I came upon this once & - if I remember right - Hadfield Town is the area at the bottom of Park Road, Boythorpe. It the houses at the flat bottom of Park Rd. - someone named Hadfield built them??? 

[shirl100]

Thanks for that, will investigate to see if there is a New Street. Cheers

Shirl

[omskirk]

If the area in question is Hadfield town, then new St is still there

[dusty_streets]

If the area in question is Hadfield town, then new St is still there

Hi, it's me, from the other 'Bowler' family.  I tracked it down whilst doing my Maternal side; even the Local Studies Dept. didn't know where it was. 

One piece of evidence I have:

From the books of Chesterfield photographs compiled by Roy Thompson. "John Henry Waterhouse was a professional photographer who lived in Hadfield Town by the Queen's Park".

"Baden Powell Road curves down from the bottom [of the picture] and, as Park Road, passes Hadfield town next to the Queen's Park".

The Queen's Park is at the top.  Park Road runs left to right. Hadfield town are the houses which come off Park Road.
The photo was c1939.

[HipperBoy]

I was born in Hadfield Town many years ago. It is next to the The Queens Park.I'm not sure of the origins of the name unless it was connected to Hadfield butchers? The properties were built in 1897 (there is a Year plaque on the end of Park Road nearest the Queens Park gates) and comprises Elton Street, New Street and Park Road.
The area still exists but hasn't changed that much.I have a photograph taken in the Edwardian period showing the Hadfield Tea rooms, which was Watkinson's newsagents and sweetshop when I was a kid (1960's)and is now a sandwich shop.

Best  Regards Lord Walton 

[dusty_streets]

Before a sandwich shop it was, for many years a newsagents, owned by Barry & Bridget Owen; I was a paper girl many many years ago now