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Dumbles Road, CHESTERFIELD, S44 6UE

A view from our back window. In the foreground is part of a building site for a new housing development in Carr Vale. A bright rainbow shines in front of the rising hillside.

A residential street, looking up the hill.

A modern housing estate is spread across the hillside below the town centre.

Taken from Bolsover 'Back Hills', Carr Vale village is the farthest extent of the housing in the foreground. Beyond that is the water of Carr Vale Flash wildfowl habitat, then the M1 motorway dividing the cornfields, and at the top of the far cornfield, amid the trees, is the ruinous Sutton Scarsdale Hall. On the far horizon is Ashover Rock. Contrast this view with contributor Andrew Hall's Image taken from almost the same spot.

View eastwards, towards Langwith Junction and Lincoln; ex-GC (LD&EC) Lincoln - Tuxford - Langwith - Chesterfield Market Place line. Station closed 3/12/51. The line from Markham Junction through Bolsover South, Bolsover Tunnel and Scarcliffe to the road bridge 300 yards east of Shirebrook North was lifted within three weeks because of the state of Bolsover Tunnel and Carr Vale Viaduct. Chesterfield Market Place and Arkwright Town stations remained open to goods traffic until 4/3/57 whereafter the stretch from Chesterfield MP to Deepsick Lane, Arkwright was lifted. Date of Markham Junction to Longcourse Lane, Duckmanton closure not known. Longcourse Lane to Deepsick Lane remained open for many years to serve Arkwright Colliery via Duckmanton North and East Junctions. Eventually this was rationalised by relaying track from Duckmanton North Junction south along the GC main line trackbed to a new connection straight into Arkwright Colliery, which promptly gave notice of closure! The photo shows the Bolsover South Station Master's house as a private dwelling in 1963. The station building itself was behind the bush on the extreme right of the photo. The architecture of the building shown is very much of a family with "Railway Cottages" on the main A632 half way between the bottom of Bolsover Hill and Markham Lane End, with the house immediately next to Clowne South station site (near Wilkinsons in the middle of Clowne) and with several buildings in Langwith Junction and Scarcliffe, some of which were never railway property but were built at the same time as the LDECR in the late 1890s. I'm sure there are others remaining along the route.

View from the hilltop footpath. The road "T" junction in view on the right is the end of Highfield Road reaching Ridgedale Road.

Spencer Street, one of the streets from around 1900 that were built when the mines were operating in the area.

View near one of the conduit houses on the hilltop footpath. In the lower right hand corner Ridgedale Road leads left from New Station Road. The Doe Lea valley in the background with a couple of the lakes in the Carr Vale reserve in view.

The town centre is on the top of the hill, this view overlooks new housing estates on the hillside and Carr Vale in the valley.

The road climbs the hillside towards the main part of the town which is to the right of the castle at the top.