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Christopher Connolly's Photographic Tour |
The photographs
and details have been supplied by Michael's 3rd cousin, Christopher Connolly.
Christopher
lives in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and is a great grandson of Michael Connolly
(1853-1921).
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Glentworth
Glentworth was the birthplace of Albert Bradshaw. He was
born on the 3rd of June 1893. |
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Barrow Hill
Considerably less rural and pretty, but no different probably,
in terms of hard lives and poverty for the people who lived there. William
and Martha Hall, along with Martha's mother Elizabeth Chapman, raised their
family here, including Samuel, born 26th January 1887. |
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Scarsdale Hospital
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The hospital was known in the 19th century as The Union
Workhouse. Among the unfortunate Irish born residents who died here are Peter
Lavender (1864) and Patrick Connolly (1875). Currently, my feeling is that
the Peter Lavender in question is probably John's father and Alice's grandfather,
but that Michael and Stephen's father was not the Patrick who died here,
but I could be wrong on both matters. In its later incarnation this building
was the birthplace of our Greg and Jonny. It is now derelict, a pretty
sad sight.
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Church of the Annunciation
Situated in Spencer Street this is Chesterfield's Catholic
Church and the venue for many family baptisms, weddings and funerals. |
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St Mary's Gate
As it appears in the year 2000. To the left is Church
Way, formerly the end of Church Lane, with the top of Spa Lane opposite.
The Plough Inn, home of the Lavenders, in 1891, was situated where the County
Court is today, where the black railings are towards the right of the
picture. |
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St Mary's Place
The nameplate on the wall at the side of Holywell Carpets
reads St Mary's Place - home to Stephen and Annie Connolley in the
middle of the 1890s. There are no houses there now and St Mary's Place exists
only as Huckleberry Willow's car park. The green traffic light marks the
top of Hollis Lane or what's left of it. The tall impressive building was
the old Scarsdale Brewery. |
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Spa Lane
Home in 1881 to Michael and Stephen's sister Mary, her
husband Thomas Mullarkey and their son, Patrick. The Mullarkeys were married
in 1878 in Widnes and, to the best of our knowledge, returned there in the
1880s and never returned to live in Chesterfield. No houses are left here
now but at least the lane still has some of its cobbles. |
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Church Lane
The lane barely exists at all today. The pub at the end
was built in 1930 and is said to be on the site of the previous Crooked
Spire Inn which, in 1891, was three doors away from the home of Alice and
Michael Connolly. All six of Alice and Michael's children were born at addresses
on Church Lane. |
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