Queens Park

Queen's Park, just outside the town centre, recently benefited from a multimillion-pound programme of investment, allowing it to host county cricket again. Alderman T P Wood, Mayor of Chesterfield in 1886 proposed that local land be acquired by the Local Board to create a public park for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. It officially opened in 1893. The park includes a cricket field, pavilion, lake, conservatory, bandstand, and miniature railway. A further 13 acres (5.3 ha) of land south of the park was acquired as a memorial to Queen Victoria in 1901 and laid out as a recreation ground known as Queen's Park Annex.- Wikepeda

 Queens Park Dedication - 1887 - Chesterfield Museum

Queens Park Dedication - 1887

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Queens park 1900 - Brian Davis & Chesterfield Photographic Soc

Queens Park - 1900.

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Chesterfield, Queen's Park, 1902. - Rob Marriott

Queen's Park, 1902.

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Queens Park 1906 - Alan Taylor 

Queens Park 1906.

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1900 - 1920

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Queens Park - late 1900's - Alan Taylor

Queens Park - late 1900's

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Skating on Queen's park lake 1920's - Neil Botham

Skating on Queen's park lake - 1920's.

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Queens Park -Donkey Rececourse, .during WW1 (National Donkey Week) - Chesterfield Museum.

Queens Park -Donkey Rececourse, .during WW1 (National Donkey Week).

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Queen's Park, 1945 - Chesterfield Museum.

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Queens Park Annex, 1960s - Chesterfield Museum

Queens Park Annex - 1960s.

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Queens Park 1961 - Domenico Diiorio

Queens Park - 1961.

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Queens Park - North Lodge - Chesterfield Museum

Queens Park - North Lodge

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Floral emblem for Queens Park Cricket Match 3 May 1961 (match drawn) (1) - Paul Malia 

Floral emblem for Queens Park Cricket Match - 3 May 1961.

Queens Park - 1961 - Paul Malia 

Queens Park - 1961 - Paul Malia 

Queens Park - 1961

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Queens Park West Indies 1963 - Paul Malia

West Indies tour match against Derbyshire 17-19 July 1963. The visitors won by 135 runs.

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Queens park 1975 - Brian Davis & Chesterfield Photographic Soc

Queens Park 1975

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Bandstand At Queens Park - 2005
Late C19. Octagonal bandstand. Rusticated stone plinth from which rise slender cast iron columns with low relief, foliate moulding on shafts. Composite capitals from which spring iron braces supporting the roof frieze, with open iron moulding below this. Pagoda roof, with finial, carried forward to form wide eaves. Ribbed ceiling. Cast iron balustrade with round arches and ball finials to interval piers.
Glass draught screen runs on track round inside of stand.

Conservatory At Queens Park - 2005
Late C19. Fine cruciform conservatory. Red brick base with brick plinth. Longer section orientated east-west. Hipped roof with ball finials. Shorter cross section has domed glass cupola with finial above the crossing. Northern entrance has double doors with flanking windows and pediment with finial overall.Dentil cornice carried round building. All window frames moulded, glazing bars intact.

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