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A depiction of the spire also features on the club's crest. [27] It has also been used by local companies to advertise their wares, including Scarsdale Brewery of Chesterfield, who used the spire in their logo, from 1866 until a takeover by Whitbread in 1958. [1] There are local folk legends as to why the spire is twisted, mostly involving the ...
The crooked spire today The twist in the Spire. Chesterfield is perhaps best known for the crooked spire of its Church of Saint Mary and All Saints and is why the local football team is known as The Spireites. The spire is twisted 45 degrees and leans 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m) from its true centre.
The crooked spire of St Mary's Church in Cleobury Mortimer. One legend relating to Chesterfield says that a virgin once married in the church, and the church was so surprised that the spire turned around to look at the bride. Another version of the myth common in Chesterfield is that the devil twisted the spire when a virgin married in the ...
A designed twist in the spire of old western town gate of Duderstadt in Germany An unintended crooked spire on St Mary's Church in England. A crooked spire, (also known as a twisted spire) is a tower that, through accident or design, contains a twist or does not point perfectly straight upwards. There are about a hundred bell towers of this ...
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Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum and art gallery in the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. [ 2 ] The hall was named in honour of the British railway pioneer George Stephenson and the museum has a small collection of objects relating to Stephenson and his family.
Melusi Madaweni was jailed for life for the murder of Billy Pearson last August, which the judge labelled a ‘callous and brutal act’.
South from Chesterfield Central [12] [11] the line went immediately into Chesterfield Tunnel, from which it emerged a few hundred yards North of Horns Bridge. It then ran under the Brampton Branch, under a footbridge, under the Midland line, under another footbridge, under the LD&ECR line, over its junction with Hyde's Sidings and finally into ...