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CHESTERFIELD CAMRA
CELEBRATES
30 YEARS OF CAMPAIGNING
From: InnSpire - Issue 68 – August 2007
 Three decades of local devotion to Real Ale were marked
on July 18th – 30 years to the day since the inaugural
Branch meeting at the Unicorn in Chesterfield – with a
celebration evening in the Arkwright Arms at
Sutton-cum-Duckmanton, one of Chesterfield Branch’s
flagship pubs for many a year.
Branch Chairman, Rhoda Waygood, and Vice-Chairman, Andy
Thackeray, are pictured holding the special birthday
cake, which was washed down with special beers brewed by
three of our area’s microbreweries: Ashover Tri-Decade,
Spire Inn-Spiration and Townes Innspired Ale.
The
current Summer Pub of the Season is run by John Chadwick
& Kathy Shorrock, and was therefore an appropriate venue
as our regular readers will acknowledge.
Here’s to the next 30 years!
InnSpire 50 - The Story So Far...
From Issue 50 of InnSpire
Issue 1 - May 1996:
Royal Oak at Millthorpe
under threat of closure • Townes GMT wins Mansfield Beer of the Festival •
The Derby Tup, Whittington Moor, is voted Pub of the Year • The White Hart,
Eckington is voted Pub of the Month.
Issue 2 - July 1996:
The Gate Inn, Troway, is voted Pub of the Month.
Issue 3 - September 1996:
Brampton Brewery •‘Guest Beer law contravenes
Treaty of Rome’.
Issue 4 - November 1996:
Tom Cobleigh announces a proposed pub/restaurant on
Sheffield Road (The Donkey Derby) • ‘Chesterfield Pubs – Past & Present’
published • Scarsdale Brewing Co.
Issue 5 - February 1997:
The Royal Oake in the Shambles has plans submitted
to change its historic character • Chesterfield Brewing Co.
Issue 6 - April 1997:
Royal Oake plans rejected • Kimberley Brewery Branch
visit • Royal Oake history.
Issue 7 - June 1997:
The Lamb Inn at Holymoorside is voted as branch Pub of
the Year for the second time in two years • The Queens Park Hotel in
Chesterfield closes on 30th April and is demolished 10 days later!
Issue 8 - August 1997:
Local pubs supporting oversized lined glasses
campaign highlighted • Holymoorside pubs past & present • Hardys & Hansons
view of the pub trade.
Issue 9 - October 1997:
CAMRA reveals a tax cut would knock 50p off a pint
of beer!
Issue 10 - December 1997:
First Chesterfield brew pub - The Speedwell Inn at
Staveley • The Crispin at Ashover is “Pub of the Season” • Eckington pubs,
past and present.
Issue 11 - February 1998:
Whittington Moor pubs, past and present •
Wetherspoons lose a pub! (stone for use at the Crown in Matlock is stolen).
Issue 12 - April 1998:
The Derby Tup on Whittington Moor is Pub of the Year.
Issue 13 - June 1998:
Customs & Excise clamp down on smugglers as pubs and
breweries continue to close • Chesterfield CAMRA - the first 21 years.
Issue 14 - August 1998:
CAMRA welcomes calls for reform of licensing law •
Stones Bitter reduced from 3.9% to 3.8% - with 3.7% trials to come • Average
price of a pint of real ale rises to £1.71 (£1.92 in London).
Issue 15 - October 1998:
Our first beer festival at the now regular venue of
the Winding Wheel is announced • Wards Brewery is put up for sale.
Issue 16 - December 1998:
The Speedwell, Staveley opens its doors as a brew
pub • The history of the Willow Tree Brewery at Pilsley.
Issue 17 - February 1999:
The Speedwell receives its first award from
Chesterfield CAMRA • Chesterfield Old Bottle Collectors Club profile.
Issue 18 - April 1999:
Has Wards Brewery been saved? (closes in July) •
Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby Mild wins Chesterfield “Beer of the Festival” •
Branch visit to Belvoir Brewery.
Issue 19 - June 1999:
Pub of the Year 1998 is The Boythorpe Inn,
Chesterfield • Kelham Island Brewery and Visitors Centre opens • History of
The Yellow Lion, Apperknowle (since closed).
Issue 20 - August 1999:
Nitrokeg lie - “Real ale will disappear by 2002” (!)
• Mansfield Brewery is put up for sale • The Arkwright Arms at
Sutton-cum-Duckmanton receives the Spring Pub of the Season award • Wards
Brewery history.
Issue 21 - October 1999:
The Royal Oak, Old Tupton awarded Summer Pub of the
Season award.
Issue 22 - December 1999:
Autumn Pub of the Season is The Red Lion,
Whittington Moor • Chesterfield’s lost pubs.
Issue 23 - February 2000:
The Derby Tup - a local performing tradition •
Winter Pub of the Season is The Speedwell Inn, Staveley
Issue 24 - April 2000:
The Speedwell, Staveley wins Pub of the Year Award.
Issue 25 - June 2000:
Chesterfield to get a Wetherspoons • Whitwell pubs,
past and present.
Issue 26 - August 2000:
Three Stags Heads at Darley Bridge wins our Summer
Pub of the Season Award • Tom and Jean Walker celebrate 40 years at The
Devonshire Arms, Middle Handley.
Issue 27 - October 2000:
Wetherspoons buy The Portland Hotel • Pub names and
signs, explained.
Issue 28 - December 2000:
Autumn Pub of the Season is The Victoria, Brampton
• The day The Apollo at Barlborough was destroyed by fire • Pub names and
horse racing connections.
Issue 29 - February 2001:
Pub of the Season is The Derby Tup on Whittington
Moor • Area Focus feature centres on the West of Chesterfield • History of
The Angel Hotel in Chesterfield • The White Hart in Eckington to be
demolished.
Issue 30 - April 2001:
Mild Month preview and local day of action announced
• Pub of the Year is The Derby Tup on Whittington Moor • Chesterfield Beer
of the Festival - Whim Hartington IPA.
Issue 31 - June 2001:
Preview of the Eckington Beer Festival • Feature on
Eckington pubs - Past & Present • The Barley Mow, Bonsall wins Spring Pub of
the Season • 60,000th CAMRA member joins • Pub names and signs featuring
Lions.
Issue 32 - August 2001:
Festival Mania! Front page features four beer
festivals to visit • Summer Pub of the Season is The Gate Inn at Troway •
Preview of Cask Ale Week • Arkell’s Brewery Feature.
Issue 33 - October 2001:
Taddington pubs past and present • Oakham brewery
feature • The Lathkil Hotel awarded Autumn Pub of the Season.
Issue 34 - December 2001:
Winter Pub of the Season is The Arkwright Arms,
Sutton-cum-Duckmanton • Harviestoun brewery feature.
Issue 35 - February 2002:
Pub of the Year 2002 is The Lathkil Hotel at Over
Haddon who also celebrate 20 consecutive years in the Good Beer Guide • New
Whittington pubs past and present • Chesterfield CAMRA celebrates 25 years
as an independent branch.
Issue 36 - April 2002:
MP support for CAMRA’s full pint campaign
investigated • Old Whittington pubs past and present • The Lamb,
Holymoorside is awarded Spring Pub of the Season.
Issue 37 - June 2002:
Small breweries are due to benefit from a fairer
system of Excise Duty • Pubs near to the Chesterfield Canal • A historic
walk around Bonsall • Townes Brewery feature.
Issue 38 - August 2002:
Cains Brewery profile • The Hare and Hounds in
Barlow is awarded Summer Pub of the Season.
Issue 39 - October 2002:
Chesterfield becomes InnSpired by Ninkasi, the 4000
year old Sumerian Goddess of Beer • History of Chesterfield Racecourse and
its pubs • The Rutland is awarded Autumn Pub of the Season • The Hay at
Shirland pub feature.
Issue 40 - December 2002:
Prince of Wales “Pub is the Hub” campaign
(campaign to save Rural pubs) • The Flying Childers, Stanton in Peak is
awarded Winter Pub of the Season.
Issue 41 - February 2003:
The Speedwell, Staveley is Pub of the Year 2003 •
Troway pubs, past and present • Derbyshire Pub signs - The Peacock.
Issue 42 - April 2003:
Spring Pub of the Season is The Arkwright Arms,
Sutton-cum-Duckmanton • Brimington pubs • Townes White Riot wins
Chesterfield Beer of the Festival.
Issue 43 - June 2003:
Madonna confesses her love of real ale • Summer Pub of
the Season is The Victoria, Brampton • Royal pub names • Barrow Hill Rail
Ale and the Black-a-Moor Beer Festivals reviewed.
Issue 44 - August 2003:
Cask Beer Week announced • Only 37% of Chesterfield
town centre pubs in serve real ale - our Mini-Guide points them out • The
Duke of York at Elton’s “outstanding interior” • The Hay at Shirland wins
our Special Award for their contribution to branch campaigning • Marsh Lane
pubs focus.
Issue 45 - October 2003:
Chesterfield CAMRA visit Hook Norton Brewery •
Autumn Pub of the Season is The Thorn Tree, Matlock • Matlock mini-guide
(Matlock beats Chesterfield for percentage of real ale pubs) • Cromford pubs
feature • Farewell to the Yellow Lion, Apperknowle.
Issue 46 - December 2003:
The Old Feathers on Lordsmill Street is demolished
• Winter Pub of the Season is The Boat at Cromford • The Brampton Mile gets
the “Mini-Guide” treatment.
Issue 47 - February 2004:
National Pubs Week is launched with a look back at
some of our lost pubs and how we can avoid further carnage • The Arkwright
Arms, Sutton-cum-Duckmanton is Pub of the Year, 2004 • Smoke Free Pubs - it
could happen.
Issue 48 - April 2004:
Townes Oatmeal Stout wins Chesterfield Beer of the
Festival • Derbyshire pub names • The Spring Pub of The Season is shared by
the Wellington Hotel, New Whittington and The Peacock Inn, Brampton.
Issue 49 - June 2004:
Mallet & Chisel closure confirmed • Chesterfield CAMRA
awarded National Branch Website of the Year • Barlborough pubs feature •
Bakewell Mini-Guide • The Old Red, Ashover becomes Old Poets’ Corner •
Summer Pub of the Season is The Thorn Tree Inn, Matlock.
In the beginning… a brief history of CAMRA
From Issue 50 of InnSpire
To
celebrate the fiftieth issue of InnSpire, this article looks at the history of
CAMRA, both nationally and locally. This then is the tale of how the experiences
of four dissatisfied drinkers has mushroomed into a national campaign with over
70,000 members.
In the beginning there were four founding fathers, all from the
Manchester/Liverpool area, who went on a pub crawl one night and were so
disappointed in the beer quality that they decided that action was required, and
subsequently formed the Campaign for the Revitalisation of Ale. Whilst they had
gained 1000 members by 1973, things really took off when ‘revitalisation’ was
dropped and the term ‘real ale’ was put forward and entered every day language.
All real ale drinkers may wish occasionally to toast the health off Michael
Hardman, Graham Lees, Bill Mellor and Jim Makin, who launched CAMRA in 1971 with
the aim of preventing the complete destruction of cask ales in Britain.
But what lay behind the key factor that gave rise to CAMRA: the decline in beer
quality in our pubs? In his book ‘ The Ale Trail’ published in 1995, Roger Protz
suggests that a root cause behind the changes that occurred in the industry in
the 1960s & 1970s, in particular the decline in the quality of beer at that
time, can be attributed to the loss of many experienced publicans killed during
the World War Two (either in military service or during bombings over here). The
new generation of publicans lacked experience in keeping cask beer, and untimely
deaths had prevented the knowledge being passed down in the usual way. Brewers
therefore moved over to bottled, and then keg, beers to overcome the issue of
many landlords not knowing how to look after cask ale, with resultant poor
quality.
CAMRA’s determination to deal with these issues hit the right spot with drinkers
as by the late 1970s the Campaign had grown to 28,000 members. Indeed positive
results in bringing cask ale back into many pubs led to CAMRA becoming a victim
of its own success and there was a membership slump in the early 1980s. However
the Campaign recognised the need to look at other issues such as pub closures,
opening hours, and the availability of a guest beer and indeed these still make
up some of the key issues that we are campaigning for today. The job is a long
way from being completed!
…and then there was the Good Beer Guide. CAMRA’s flagship publication has always
been the Good Beer Guide, first published in 1974. The first edition has two
versions - the original that stated that Watney’s beers should be avoided ‘like
the plague’ was immediately withdrawn by the publishers and replaced with a more
sensitive appraisal of Watney’s delights - ‘avoid at all costs’. Early editions
are said to contain a few quirks – a Suffolk pub on the London Underground, a
pub that claimed a car park yet had to be reached via a half mile walk along a
canal towpath, a non-existent pub that was apparently a complete spoof and even
a county that never existed.
The Good Beer Guide is 32 years old this year and the 2005 vintage will be
looking to match the record sales of nearly 49,000 achieved by the 2004 Guide
(around 20,000 more than the nearest competitor, the Good Pub Guide). As an
aside, CAMRA now has over
70,000 members which, allowing for sales to the general public, means that a
considerable number of CAMRA members do not purchase the Guide each year, when
did you last renew yours?
The Chesterfield Branch of CAMRA was established at
a meeting held on the 18th July 1977 at the Furnace Inn, Goytside (now the
Unicorn Tavern) where there was a large turn out of 23 members. The first
committee was elected with Doug Leeming as Chairman – a post, which he was to
hold until 1991. In fact the branch has had only 7 Chairmen to date, with Dave
Holden, Roy Shorrock, Jim McIntosh, Mary Keast, Nigel Mower and our present
Chairman Rhoda Waygood completing the line-up.
In 1981 the first branch real ale guide was produced. It was small but
informative, recording the 137 pubs in our area that served real ale, including
our first microbrewery, Winkles Saxon Cross from Buxton. Subsequently two
editions of a Derbyshire Ale Guide were produced, the most recent in 1990.
Derbyshire has recently been resurveyed and work is now nearly complete on the
latest edition of the Derbyshire Ale Guide.
Another highlight of the first 21 years was our first real ale festival, jointly
run with the Cavendish Round Table, in November 1983 at the Goldwell rooms. It
was a great success and became a two-day event in subsequent years. A total of
four festivals were held at this venue, probably the best venue in town at that
time, sadly now demolished. The next four events were held at the newly opened
Winding Wheel Centre, which were followed by a further three at Chesterfield
College Refectory, the last being in 1993. There was then a gap of six years
before the branch returned to the Winding Wheel in 1999. The festival, always a
sell-out, is now a regular event in the Chesterfield calendar. The branch is
also involved in the Barrow Hill Roundhouse Rail Ale festival held each May.
InnSpire newsletter was launched in May 1996 by a team led by Graeme Brown,
supported by John McKaig, Roger Buck and Alan Wood. InnSpire is our key
campaigning tool and it has always been well supported by advertisers, primarily
local pubs and others connected with the trade. Indeed the Rose & Crown at
Barlborough has advertised in every issue.
In the early days articles had to be typed in at the printers; nowadays the
branch owns an Apple Mac computer for this purpose. InnSpire has matured into a
quality publication (so we are told…!) and the credit for this must go to Nick
Wheat and Neil Parkin who took on editorial and production responsibility when
the original team decided to move on. Professionally designed adverts and an
annual colour issue (for the beer festival) are now the norm. Another
significant development came in 2003 when, thanks to the know how of branch
webmaster Alun Waterhouse, InnSpire is now available on the internet and
therefore can now be read by a world wide audience. Today the branch is stronger
and more active than ever; we have 450 plus members, regular social functions,
organise beer festivals to give more people the opportunity to try real ale and
participate in local campaigns e.g. to prevent local pubs closing. If you would
like to be involved in CAMRA’s future successes, you are more than welcome to
join us.
Jim McIntosh
Thanks to John Hirst for supplying information on
Chesterfield branch.
Chesterfield CAMRA - 25 Years (and beyond)
 In 2002 Chesterfield and District CAMRA celebrated our 25th anniversary as an independent branch, although we had existed for about two years prior to this as a sub-branch of Derby CAMRA. The branch was established at a meeting held on the 18th July 1977 at the Furnace Inn Goytside (now the Unicorn Tavern) where there was a large turn out of 23 members. The first committee was elected with Doug Leeming as Chairman - a post, which he was to hold until 1991. In fact the branch has had only 5 Chairmen to date, with Dave Holden, Roy Shorrock, Jim McIntosh and our present Chairman Mary Keast completing this quintet.
The branch has witnessed many changes in the world of real ale we first saw the revived interest in real ales from keg only brewers, including Mansfield Brewery and John Smiths. Then came the rise in popularity of microbreweries and their many and varied brews. We have unfortunately mourned the closure of several regional local breweries such as Shipstones Home Brewery, Stones Cannon brewery, Wards Brewery and now Mansfield has been added to the list. The branch has had many individual campaigning issues for example lined oversized glasses and more flexible opening hours.
In 1981 the first branch real ale guide was produced. It was small but informative, recording the 137 pubs in our area that served real ale, including our first microbrewery, Winkles Saxon Cross from Buxton. Other revived names available at this time included
Gilmour's Bitter; Whitbread Queens Ale and BYB (Bentleys Yorkshire Bitter) - all long since disappeared. The success of the mini guide led to the production of a larger better produced guide. Further editions of our own guide were curtailed by the publication of two editions of the Derbyshire Ale Guide. Derbyshire has recently been resurveyed and work is now nearly complete on the latest edition of the Derbyshire Ale Guide.
Another highlight of the first 21 years was our first real ale festival, jointly run with the Cavendish Round Table, in November 1983 at the Goldwell rooms. It was a great success and became a two day event in subsequent years. A total of four festivals were held at this venue, probably the best venue in town at that time, sadly now demolished. The next four events were held at the newly opened Winding Wheel Centre, which were followed by a further three at Chesterfield College Refectory, the last being in 1993. There was then a gap of six years before the branch returned to the Winding Wheel. Three very successful festivals later we are looking forward to our fourth sell out event.
Chesterfield had been without a brewery for nearly 40 years, when in 1994 Alan Wood opened the Townes microbrewery on Lockoford Lane, Chesterfield. Beers such as Muffin, Colliers, Sunshine, Golden Bud, Spireite, GMT, Staveleyan, Stargazer and IPA have graced our bars and excited our taste buds. This little brewery has a strong local following and has now moved premises to the Speedwell at Staveley to become a brewpub.
So, if you have been involved at all over the years, or would like to join CAMRA, please come along to some of our social events and help us continue in our campaign for real ale.
John Hirst
(Edited in 2003 by Alun Waterhouse)
Chesterfield CAMRA - 1979
In our 25th Anniversary year we take a look back at the early awards given for the excellence of keeping a good pint of beer, then known as Pub of the Month. How have these pubs changed over the years? Branch records indicate that the award began in the summer of 1979, no doubt following the lead from larger CAMRA branches.
The first pub to receive the award was the Royal Oak in Chesterfield’s Shambles, kept in those days by Roland Sullivan. Licensee from 1958 to December 1979, he can be credited with preserving the pub to the closest the town centre has to an unspoilt pub. He kept a wonderful pint of Stones and was well worthy of the award. Today, after a very uncertain recent past, the Enterprise Inns pub has been given a new lease of life by licensee Adrian Robinson, who has funded its refurbishment. He believes real ale should be the basis a traditional pub, and for good measure also provides good food. Regular ales are Stones and Pedigree, with a guest ale, currently Fullers London Pride. Hopefully he will be a future contender for the award.
The next award was the Barley Mow, Saltergate. At this time CAMRA meetings were held in the upstairs room. The landlord was Don Grace, quite a character, who kept a superb pint of Wards bitter at a time when it really was full of flavour and body. For a small pub his beer sales were exceptional, rows of hogsheads (54 gallons) were lined up in his cellar. Although now renovated the modern pub still retains some of the cosy atmosphere that once prevailed. Beers are from the Pubmaster range, with Tetley’s, Theakstons and Pedigree on tap on a recent visit.
Clay Cross was the venue for the September award. The Shoulder of Mutton sold Tetley’s on electric pumps. It was a good town local, now an Indian restaurant called the Clay Oven.
October saw us travel to the Great Central at Wheeldon Mill, one of the few Shipstones pubs locally. Serving bitter on electric pumps it was a true locals pub. The pub was bought in 1983 by ex-footballer Peter Swan, who changed the name to The Mill, as it is known today. Sadly poor sales at the expense of
cream flow have recently forced real ale from the bar.
The first award in our western area was the Three Stags Heads, Darley Bridge. Little has changed since those days, keeping its old charm and character. Owned by Hardys & Hansons, selling Kimberley bitter, although poor sales have once again driven traditional mild out in favour of the
cream flow version.
The last award of 1979 went to the Queens Park Hotel, a large town pub with a fine glazed brick façade. It originally gained much of its trade from the old cattle market at the rear. Selling Home mild and bitter from a plush lounge or large open tap room, it caused quite a stir when it was swiftly demolished in April 1997 before any opposition could be mustered. The loss, it transpired was to give more parking spaces in the new retail park.
A quick note about the change in presentation of real ales. Of the pubs mentioned, four out of the six served the beer through electric pumps, as did the majority in our area in 1979. Hand pulls were thought of by brewers as old fashioned and only slowly gained favour once again as the more traditional method of dispense.
John Hirst
Chesterfield CAMRA - 1995 Pubs of the Season
Chesterfield & District CAMRA is celebrating campaigning for 25 years from 1977-2002 as we do so we are looking back at the awards we have given in support of our local pubs. Here we revisit 1995, where 3 monthly awards were given and the Pub of the Year award. It was the year when Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Manchester United won the League and Cup double and Manchester City were relegated. Trainer, Jenny Pitman, won the Grand National with 40-1 “Royal Athlete”; Pete Sampras beat Boris Becker in the men’s Wimbledon final. On January 17, an earthquake struck the region of Kobe and Osaka in south central Japan. John Major was Britain’s Prime Minister, and Shaggy was no.1 with Boombastic.
In April 1995, Chesterfield CAMRA awarded the Gate Inn at Troway ‘Pub of the Month’. This excellent village inn is off the beaten track but worth making the effort to find. The lane through Troway runs down the side of the Black A Moor (well worth a visit en route) and comes out on the road between Apperknowle and Marsh Lane. The pub is one of several buildings in the area thought to be between 200-250 years old, it is stone built with two cosy bars, comfortably furnished, both with real fires in winter.
The landlord Andrew and wife Kay have been in charge here since 1994, when they took over from Kay’s parents, although Andrew’s great-grandfather used to run the pub many years ago. Burtonwood now own the Gate and the beer range consists of Burtonwood Bitter, Top Hat and the monthly guest real ale. The beers are always good and this consistency has earned a Pub of the Month award, a Pub of the Season award for Summer 2001 and entries in the Good Beer Guide. Call in next time you are in the area, sit in the award winning garden or enjoy the friendly atmosphere and the consistently good ale served in oversized glasses.
In August 1995, the Pub of the Month award went to the Boat Inn at Cromford. Situated up a narrow lane ‘Scarthin’ from the main square, having found the Boat though it is a real treasure. When the Boat Inn won the award in 1995 it sold Townes Boat Inn Bitter, together with a selection of two other guest ales. Today you will find Marston’s Pedigree, Springhead Bitter and 2 changing guest ales in a comfortable, welcoming lounge room. The pub is thought to be 250 years old this year and you enter the lounge on the upper level. Below is a function room, which opens out onto the pleasant beer garden at the rear. The landlord Kevin and Debbie recently held their first Firkin Booze Festival in June, with live music and 12 beers; the event proved popular and was a great success.
In October 1995, Chesterfield CAMRA awarded the George Hotel at Youlgreave the pub of the month. Typical of the White Peak area Youlgreave and the George Hotel offer many things to its visitors. The striking Church of All Saints dominates the pub and the centre of the village. The George Hotel a former frequent entry in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide doesn’t disappoint, a friendly welcome awaits. On entering this large old three roomed village corner pub you are faced with a bank of hand pumps offering Courage Directors, Theakstons Mild, John Smiths Cask plus a guest, on our most recent visit it was Hydes Jekyll’s Gold. There is also an extensive home cooked food menu on large blackboards, this is a family pub and children are made welcome. Apart from being the centre of the local community and a meeting place, the George also sells local produce, eggs, flowers etc. and attracts many visitors walkers, hikers and drinkers! This fine village pub perhaps deserves further recognition and soon.
Finally the Derby Tup on Whittington Moor Chesterfield, for many years known as the real ale Mecca, was awarded the Pub of the Year award for 1995. Owned by Tynemill Inns the tenant Peter Hayes has a long association with the pub, as he was the manager before taking over the tenancy in November 1999. The ‘Tup has built a strong following over the years and boasts one of the best beer selections in the Chesterfield area as a result of its six regular cask beers and 4 guest ales together with real cider usually Old Rosie scrumpy. The quality of the food has in the past earned an entry in CAMRA’s Good Food Guide. This most traditional of pubs with a main room, a smoke free snug and back room attracts customers from all walks of life, all are made welcome. The Derby Tup was also selected as Chesterfield CAMRA’s Pub of the Year 1997 and has featured continuously in the Good Beer Guide since 1985. This webpage was last updated on
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
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