The Blacksmiths Shop

 

I have just updated the facebook cover picture ( https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064718707620) with this evocative picture of the old blacksmiths shop on High St at Old Whittington. 

It stood roughly where the old peoples bungalows are now. The photo is dated 1937 and was originally posted on Old Chesterfield Pictures facebook page by Alan Taylor.

REMEMBRANCE 1928

I couldn't resist posting this article from the Derbyshire Times 10th March 1928. The writer doesn't appear to have a very high opinion of the residents of Old Whittington and how they view the war memorial. I imagine at the time it could have been quite offensive to some! 

Would be interesting to have known who the author was and where he came from.