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Slacks Lane, CHESTERFIELD, S45 8HH

Slack's Lane looking towards its junction Image with Forest Drive Image Behind the viewpoint the lane curves right to join Bridge Street Image Also behind the viewpoint, but to the left, is Image

Prior to 1800, Pilsley was purely an agricultural settlement and at that time it consisted of Upper Pilsley and Nether Pilsley. Few of the houses from that period still exist though Barlow Bank Farm (no longer a farm building) is one of them. The building is situated near to the junction of Slack’s Lane (seen on the right of the photograph Image) and the northern end of Bridge Street Image

This Fire hydrant and its signage are on Slack’s Lane roughly half way between its junction with Forrest Drive and where it meets The Paddocks Image and Back Lane Image

Although now just a private dwelling, the house on the right (for sale at the time this photograph was taken) is still called Barlow Bank Farm. The photograph was taken from the western end of Image (to the left) at its junction with Image (behind the viewpoint). Ahead (north-easterly, leading toward the modern house) is a Image leading to Image

The photograph is taken from the point where the lane Image meets Forest Drive Image At the head of the road (right, distance) is Back Lane Image where it meets The Paddocks Image To the right of this viewpoint is a Image that leads, via Rother Street and Queen Street to Station Road.

This right of way connects Image (behind the viewpoint) Image at its junction with Image The building with the tiled roof is Image

Image from its junction with Back Lane Image The junction in the middle distance (right) is with Image The building with the white gable end is ‘Old Whitehall’. In front of this building is a right of way that leads past Image to Image at its junction with Image

Before more modern housing was built the left-hand side of this photograph was a field and the path ran down its edge. This path was one of those that the miners would have used on their way to the colliery entrance. Today the path runs to Image via Rother Street and a children’s playing field. To see a more southerly (ahead) view of this footpath at its junction with Rother Street, click here: Image Click here Image for a view of Slack's Lane taken from the same viewpoint.

The photograph shows Back Lane at the point where its junctions with Image (turning right) and Image (across the white lines) detach a short section of Image from the majority of its length. Behind the viewpoint the lane continues Image towards Whitehall Farm.

The cul-de-sac, Old Hall Close, photographed from near its southern end. The junction in the middle distance (left) is with Image The northern end of Image joins Image ahead (but out of shot). Just past the shadow, on the near left, is a Image