Packers Row

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ackers ow - John Stinton

Thanks to John Stinton

Woodheads - Oriental Cafe - John Stinton

Woodheads on the corner of Packers Row and High Street housed an Oriental Café which was situated on the first floor. Decorated in the oriental style where friends could sip coffee and the finest teas. On the second floor there was a suitably furnished smoking room.

Thanks to John Stinton

The Chesterfield Cafe Company 1887 - Alan Taylor

The Chesterfield Cafe Company also known as the Livingstone Cafe and stood at the corner of Packers Row and Burlington Street before Swallow’s new store was built. 1887.

Thanks to Alan Taylor

Packers Row 1895 - Rob Marriott

Packers Row 1895 (Source Unkown)

Thanks to Rob Marriott

Swallows, Packers Row - John Stinton

The corner you see in the photograph was formerly a house and then the'Flying Dutchman Inn'. When the inn closed, Swallows took it over and put in extrs windows, to use it for display purposes. It was situated at the corner of Packers Row and Knifesmithgate.

The original owner John Kinver Swallow, was raised in Yorkshire but relocated to Chesterfield in the 1840s. By the time he died in 1890 he had, what was to become, the biggest store in Chesterfield.. His son, also J K Swallow, and his brothers grew the business and the shop on the corner was eventually demolished. Some of the prebious work carried out included the use of Portland Stone and bronze. The last J K Swallow (the third) passed away in 1957. The store finally closed in 1970 and was demolished a year later.

 

Thanks to John Stinton

Woodhead's Grocery Store, Packers Row Corner, c. 1900. - Alan Taylor

Woodhead's Grocery Store, Packers Row Corner. - 1900.

Thanks to Alan Taylor

John Turner's Shop, Packers Row c.1900's - Paul Greenroad

Thanks to Paul Greenroad

John Turner - John Stinton

John Turner was born in Wingerworth in 1826 and grew up inthe care of his grandparents at the Nags Head Inn on Derby Road. In 1828 his father, William, took over as the landlord of the Angel Inn on Packers Row. As a young man John worked as an apprentice in a draper's shop at the corner of Packers Row.
He left Chesterfield for 4 years to go to London to learn the drapery trade and when he returned he married and lived in Staveley. He opened his first shop at 5 Packers Row and in 1880 he expanded his buisness, which eventually was to include all the property you see in the picture above.

Thanks to Joh Stinton 

Pakers Row 1961 - Domenico Diiorio

Pakers Row - 1961.

Thanks to Domenico Diiorio

Packers Row and John Turners. - Chesterfield Museum

Packers Row and John Turners

Thanks to Chesterfield Museum

E. Woodhead & Sons Ltd - November 1978 - Mick Walpole

E. Woodhead & Sons Ltd - 1978

Thanks to Mick Walpole

Cantor's Furniture Store and Packer's Row Chesterfield, 1990 (1) - Paul Greenroad

Cantor's Furniture Store and Packer's Row Chesterfield, 1990 (1) - Paul Greenroad

Cantor's Furniture Store and Packer's Row Chesterfield,- 1990

Thanks to Paul Greenroad

Thornton's Confectioners, Packer's Row Chesterfield, 1991 - Paul Greenroad

Thornton's Confectioners, Packer's Row - 1991

Thanks to Paul Greenroad

Pakers Row

Packers Row

Empty Greenwoods - 2020

Packers Row

E. Woodhead & Sons Ltd - 2020

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