Chesterfield photos

Chesterfield Photos

	Chesterfield Crooked Spire or, more correctly, the spire of St Marys Church in Chesterfield. Probably the most famous building in Chesterfield, its spire is crooked because it was built using two different types of wood - which, over time, warped at different rates.
	This is a more distant view of Chesterfield's "crooked spire", taken from the top of the multi-storey car park near the Co-Op Department Store. BTW despite what politically-incorrect jokes you may have heard, the Crooked Spire was not built by "two bent people" !
	Assembly Rooms In the centre of Chesterfield Market Square, the Assembly Rooms building houses both the indoor market and the indoor food market. Upstairs, the rooms are hired out for local meetings, including those of the Chesterfield Socialist Workers Party
	Chesterfield Town Hall
	May Day Rally 1998 On the subject of politics, Chesterfield's annual May Day Rally is one of the largest in the UK, drawing in socialists and trade unionists from not only across Derbyshire, but also from South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
	Yet the May Day Rally is far from the only demonstration to take place in Chesterfield. A large demo, which took place one evening in early 1998, ended with a "fire sculpture" as shown. The images which were torched were symbolic of the 5 evils of capitalism: unemployment, poverty, ignorance, disease and squalour.
	Santa's Grotto in the under-cover shopping centre, near the exit to the car parks Photo taken in December 2003