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Second plaque marks Portland Hotel and former station
Chesterfield and District Civic Society’s second plaque to be unveiled in July marks the Portland Hotel and the adjacent, but 1973 demolished, Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Station. The latest in the society’s blue plaque series was unveiled on 23 July by Wetherspoon’s area manager Joe Argyle, with the society’s chairman Howard Borrell. The…
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Plaque update – Portland plaque gets OK
We are delighted to have received approval from J.D. Wetherspoon, as owners of the Portland Hotel, to install a plaque to commemorate both the hotel and the adjoining Market Place station of the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway. The Portland served in part as refreshment rooms for the new station. This will join a…
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Blue Plaque News
One new blue plaque is currently in production, with two more planned. Our blue plaque for the United Reformed church at Rose Hill is now in production at the manufacturers Leander. We have been promised delivery in early June, but we don’t yet have an unveiling date. The two other plaques we currently have in…
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