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72-541: Fraser Darling was born in Soresby Street in Chesterfield in northern England, the illegitimate son of Harriet Cowley Ellse Darling and Cpt. Frank Moss. His mother was the daughter of a prosperous family from Sheffield . Her family wanted the child to be fostered and forgotten about. However, she would not cooperate and refused to part with Frank. His father, whom he never met, left for East Africa around

144-507: A mural crown , suggestive of a town wall and thus borough status. The supporters represent the Cock and Pynot Inn , Old Whittington . The now Cock and Magpie Inn (53°16'13.1"N 1°25'34.3"W) is next to Revolution House , which was the site of a meeting between conspirators against James II in 1688. Among those meeting there were the Earl of Danby and Devonshire , marked by ducal crowns round

216-500: A modern sawmill at Halfway , near Sheffield. The former sawmill has been demolished, and is now a mixed residential and commercial development called Chesterfield Waterside. There is a Morrisons on the junction of Chatsworth Road (A619) and Walton Road (A632), a Sainsburys on Rother Way (A619 for Staveley), and a Tesco Extra on the junction of the A619 and A61 (known locally as Tesco Roundabout ). The Institute of Business Advisers

288-666: A number of large new communities without overwhelming existing towns, while avoiding as far as possible good agricultural land and areas liable to subsidence. In the Tweed Valley the problem was not so much one of "town" planning as of discovering ways of arresting the decline in population by the provision of improved housing and social facilities where these were lacking, and by the introduction of balancing industries to supplement those of agriculture and weaving. The Regional Plan for Central and South-East Scotland , one of three major regional plans for Scotland's post-war reconstruction,

360-495: A population of 103,569 in the 2021 Census. In 2021, the town itself had a population of 76,402. It has been traced to a transitory Roman fort of the 1st century CE. The name of the later Anglo-Saxon village comes from the Old English ceaster (Roman fort) and feld (pasture). It has a sizeable street market three days a week. The town sits on an old coalfield , but little visual evidence of mining remains since

432-666: A proposal for a Scottish National War Memorial as Via Sacra following the line of Johnston Terrace on the southern slope of the Edinburgh Castle Rock. In 1926, Mears was engaged to prepare a scheme for a National Memorial to David Livingstone at Livingstone's birthplace in Blantyre . A series of relief tableaux and a World Fountain were devised in collaboration with the sculptor, Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson . In 1950, Mears worked with his partners, H.A. Rendel Govan and Robert J. Naismith, and Pilkington Jackson on

504-467: A scheme for the redevelopment of part of the town centre which had been badly damaged by wartime bombing. His work in the burgh was the subject of a documentary film entitled Greenock Plans Ahead (1948), directed by the photographer Hamilton Tait and narrated by Frank Phillips. In 1951, Mears submitted proposals for the expansion and redevelopment of the University of Glasgow . His scheme involved

576-523: A serious deficiency of open spaces in the lower part of the town. Mears proposed redevelopment at lower densities, the creation of new industrial areas and the accommodation of the displaced population in a constellation of new neighbourhoods laid out in the Kip Valley on American Parkway lines to create a "federal Garden City ". He also prepared layouts and designs for council housing in Greenock and

648-520: Is a market and industrial town in the county of Derbyshire , England. It is 24 miles (39 km) north of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) south of Sheffield at the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Hipper . In 2011, the built-up-area subdivision had a population of 88,483, making it the second-largest settlement in Derbyshire, after Derby. The wider Borough of Chesterfield had

720-569: Is a Post Office Ltd building in the town at West Bars called Future Walk. Formerly this was Chetwynd House, now demolished and replaced by the new building. The town centre of Chesterfield has retained much of its pre-war plan. Chesterfield Market is one of the largest open-air markets in Britain, the stalls sitting either side of the Market Hall. In the middle of town, a collection of narrow medieval streets makes up The Shambles, which houses

792-785: Is based on Queen Street North. Chesterfield Royal Hospital is on the A632 towards Calow and Bolsover . It has the only accident and emergency department in Derbyshire outside Derby. The Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Branch of the RSPCA is located in the town, and serves the North East Derbyshire area. The Royal Mail 's Pensions Service Centre is near the town in Boythorpe Road, in Rowland Hill House, which also serves other administrative functions. There

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864-602: Is emphasized that the Highlands and Islands are largely a devastated terrain, and that any policy which ignores this fact cannot hope to achieve rehabilitation". The "devastation", he further concluded, was the inevitable outcome of bad land use. The Highlands had first been stripped of their natural forest cover, then they had been subjected to repeated burning, to intensive grazing, to overstocking and to other forms of maltreatment which had drained their soils of fertility and made them steadily less productive. Frank Mears drew on

936-595: Is interred in Trinity Church. A statue of him was erected outside Chesterfield railway station in 2006. Local government in Chesterfield has a two-tier structure. At the upper tier of services such as consumer protection, education, main roads and social services is provided by Derbyshire County Council . At the lower tier, housing, planning, refuse collection and burial grounds are provided by Chesterfield Borough Council. There are two civil parishes in

1008-866: Is now non-constituent partner. Chesterfield lies at the confluence of the River Rother and River Hipper at the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Yorkshire Coalfield , in the eastern foothills of the Pennines . It is sometimes described as the "Gateway to the Peak ", with the Peak District National Park to the west of the town. Nearby areas of the South and West Yorkshire Green Belt can serve to block urban sprawl . Other local greenfield frameworks include "strategic gaps" to maintain

1080-711: Is part of the Chesterfield constituency ; the Member of Parliament (MP) is Toby Perkins (Labour). The local council for Chesterfield is Chesterfield Borough Council. Since the cessation of coal mining, the economy around Chesterfield has undergone major change. The employment base has moved from the primary and secondary sectors towards the tertiary. The area sits on an old, large coalfield which had many collieries, including those in outlying areas which were historically part of Chesterfield Rural District : Clay Cross , Arkwright Town , Bolsover , Grassmoor , North Wingfield and Holmewood . Between 1981 and 2002, 15,000 jobs in

1152-528: Is the simultaneous and shortened breeding season that occurs in large colonies of birds. The outbreak of the Second World War put an end to Fraser Darling's hopes of undertaking further research on the grey seal and, being too old for active military service, he chose to farm rather than leave the west coast of Scotland for wartime civilian work. Between 1939 and 1943 Fraser Darling reclaimed derelict land to agricultural production on Tanera Mòr in

1224-666: The A61 , with a dual carriageway from the town centre right into Sheffield. The A617 links to Mansfield , the A619 provides an entry point to the Peak District (eventually joining the A6 near Bakewell ) and the A632 connects Bolsover with Matlock . The M1 motorway passes Chesterfield to the east, at a distance of 6 miles (9.7 km) to junction 29a. Three junctions provide access to

1296-591: The Battle of Chesterfield saw a band of rebel barons defeated by a royalist army. Elizabeth I granted a charter in either 1594 or 1598, creating a corporation of a mayor, six aldermen, six brethren, and twelve capital burgesses. This remained its charter until the borough was reshaped under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 . It originally consisted only of the township of Chesterfield but absorbed some surrounding townships in 1892. There

1368-804: The David Wolffsohn Library. Before the war, Mears had assisted Geddes with the mounting of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in Dublin and he subsequently worked with Dublin Corporation and the Irish Local Government Board on a number of schemes for garden villages in various parts of the city. Between 1922 and 1924, in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War , he prepared plans for civic renewal and

1440-522: The Emley Moor TV transmitter and local TV transmitter situated north of the town. Frank Mears Sir Frank Charles Mears PPRSA FRSE LLD (11 July 1880 – 25 January 1953) was an architect and Scotland 's leading planning consultant from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Born in Tynemouth he moved to Edinburgh in 1897 when his father, Dr William Pope Mears (1855–1901),

1512-746: The Great Glen . In 1935, Mears was appointed consultant architect for a new crossing of the River Dee at Allenvale in Aberdeen , to relieve congestion on the historic Brig o Dee upstream. Work began on his design for a three-span reinforced concrete bridge faced in Kemnay granite in 1938 and the new crossing was opened as the George VI Bridge in 1941. In 1932, Mears and Leslie Grahame-Thomson prepared model designs for rural houses on behalf of

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1584-553: The Royal Oak , one of Britain's oldest pubs. Near Holywell Cross is what was (until 2013) Chesterfield's largest department store, the Co-operative or Co-op. The main building opened in 1938, and now occupies the majority of Elder Way, including an enclosed bridge, and part of Knifesmithgate . Here the façade is in the mock-Tudor style fashionable in the 1930s, which still dominates the north side of Knifesmithgate. In 2001,

1656-568: The Summer Isles , Fraser Darling began the work that was to mark him as a naturalist-philosopher of original turn of mind and great intellectual drive. He described the social and breeding behaviour of the red deer , gulls , and the grey seal respectively, in the three academic works A Herd of Red Deer , Bird Flocks and the Breeding Cycle and A Naturalist on Rona . The Fraser Darling effect , proposed by Fraser Darling in 1938,

1728-574: The 1980s but delayed for economic reasons. A multi-storey car park on Beetwell St was added under the revised plan. The area lies between the Pavements Centre and markets and the crooked spire. Nightlife is centred mainly in the Church Way, Holywell Street and Corporation Street areas. The Brampton Mile, west of the town centre is known for the number of public houses on a 1 mile (1.6 km) stretch of Chatsworth Road. In February 2006,

1800-889: The APRS, the Ministry agreed to face its engineering works in Glencoe in local stone and to respect the local land form in its designs for road improvements throughout the Highlands . In 1930, Mears and Charles Denny Carus-Wilson were appointed consultant architects for five new road bridges on the A82: over the River Kiachnish (1932) between North Ballachulish and Fort William; and over the River Oich and at Invergarry (1932), at Invermoriston (1933) and at Fort Augustus (1935) in

1872-679: The APRS. 71 cottages to their design were built in Roxburghshire . Mears also prepared plans and designs for a number of housing schemes in Peebles , including developments at Neidpath Road (1935) and Connor Street (1936). In 1933, Mears and Carus-Wilson were engaged to design the Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes, an early sheltered housing development in Galashiels. Towards the end of his career, Mears addressed

1944-606: The Borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire , and obtained diplomas in agriculture and dairying . Soon afterwards he married Marion Fraser ("Bobbie") and took the double-barrelled surname Fraser Darling, which, although he was divorced from Bobbie in 1948, he used until the end of his life. While working as a Clean Milk Advisor in Buckinghamshire , and longing for a research post in Scotland , Fraser Darling heard about

2016-898: The Chesterfield Symphony Orchestra. The "Pomegranate Theatre", formerly the Chesterfield Civic Theatre and previously the Stephenson Memorial Theatre, is a listed Victorian building in what is now known as the Stephenson Memorial Hall . It has an auditorium that seats about 500 people. Shows are given throughout the year. Also in the Stephenson Memorial Hall is the Chesterfield Museum , opened in 1994. Until 1984 it

2088-459: The Chesterfield and District Co-operative Society was incorporated into a larger regional Midlands Co-operative Society Limited, now the biggest independent retail society in the UK. Owing to a decline in retail sales, the large home and fashion Co-op department store closed at the end of July 2013, The area has had some redevelopment with a Premier Inn and retail stores now open. In the late 1970s

2160-657: The Continent, he returned to Scotland and worked under Ramsay Traquair (1874–1952). In 1908 he became an assistant to the pioneer planner Patrick Geddes (1854–1932), working on the Civic Survey of Edinburgh for the first ever Town Planning Exhibition (1910). He worked with Geddes and his daughter Norah on the creation of a Scottish National Zoological Garden 1913–14 which became Edinburgh Zoo . In 1915 he married Norah Geddes, making Patrick Geddes his father-in-law. In World War I he served with Geddes' son Alasdair in

2232-596: The English of officialdom. Concerns at the Department of Agriculture about the radical nature of the findings of the survey and its implied criticism of the policies it had been pursuing led to repeated delays to its publication. It was finally published as West Highland Survey: An Essay in Human Ecology in 1955. In the concluding sentence of his introduction Fraser Darling wrote that: "the bald unpalatable fact

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2304-664: The GCR loop into Chesterfield and the LD&;ECR passing both on a 700 feet (210 m) viaduct. Horns Bridge has been redeveloped since the last two railways closed. Horns Bridge roundabout on the A61 Derby Road and A617 Lordsmill Street now occupies the site. The viaduct was demolished in the 1970s. Chesterfield tramway system was built in 1882 and closed in 1927. The main taxi ranks are in Elder Way, Knifesmithgate and outside

2376-610: The Kite Balloon section of the Royal Flying Corps and, importantly, invented the modern parachute (and quick release buckle) whilst serving as a Major in this role. Mears was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1936, became full academician in 1943 and served as its President 1944–1950. The University of Edinburgh conferred an honorary doctorate ( LLD ) on him in 1945, and he

2448-614: The Strontian Estate in Ardnamurchan The aim of the West Highland Survey, Fraser Darling wrote, was "to gather a solid body of facts... which would serve as a foundation for a future policy for the region". To gather these facts, he recruited five assistants, all young Highlanders: people personally acquainted with the crofting life who could converse with crofters in their native Gaelic rather than in

2520-565: The Summer Isles. In 1942, the wartime Secretary of State for Scotland , Thomas Johnston , asked him to run an agricultural advisory programme in the crofting areas of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. He agreed, and for two years he travelled, taught and wrote articles that were later published in book form as Crofting Agriculture . In 1944 he was appointed as Director of the West Highland Survey based at Kilcamb Lodge on

2592-628: The accommodation of new national institutions on behalf of the Greater Dublin Reconstruction Movement. In the course of his career, Mears prepared a number of schemes for monuments and memorials. With Ramsay Traquair he prepared schemes for a memorial to Edward VII & I at the foot of the Canongate (1911) and the completion of the National Monument on Calton Hill (1912). In 1919 he submitted

2664-561: The ancient Common Seal of the Borough the tree leaved and eradicated proper flowered and fructed Or and for the Crest on a Wreath of the Colours Issuant from a Mural Crown Gules Masoned Or a Mount Vert thereon a Derby Ram passant guardant proper. Supporters : On the dexter side a Cock and on the sinister side a Pynot or Magpie proper each Ducally gorged Or The shield is based on the borough's ancient common seal, believed to date from

2736-434: The area between Low Pavement (in the Market Square) and New Beetwell Street was redeveloped to build "The Pavements" Shopping Centre, known by some as The Precinct. The existing buildings were demolished except for the façades on Lower Pavement. The shopping centre was opened in November 1981 by the Prince and Princess of Wales . It has entrances opposite Chesterfield Market and escalators leading down to New Beetwell St and

2808-432: The borough, Brimington and Staveley. Derbyshire County Council has 64 county councillors and Chesterfield Borough Council 40 local councillors, both elected every four years. The borough council uses armorial bearings originally granted to the previous borough corporation by letters patent dated 10 November 1955. The blazon of the arms is as follows: Gules a Device representing a Pomegranate Tree as depicted on

2880-481: The building of the Chesterfield Line – part of the Derby to Leeds railway (North Midland Line) begun in 1837 by George Stephenson . During the work, a sizeable seam of coal was discovered while the Clay Cross Tunnel was constructed. This and the local ironstone were exploited by Stephenson, who set up a company in Clay Cross to trade in the minerals. During his time in Chesterfield, Stephenson lived at Tapton House , remaining there until his death in 1848. He

2952-431: The bus station. An enclosed bridge links the site to a multi-storey car park built at the same time, adjacent to the town's coach station. Chesterfield's multi-storey library stands just outside The Pavements in New Beetwell St. The building was opened in 1985. In annual figures compiled by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy it ranked fifth in the UK for number of loans in 2008, rising one place on

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3024-412: The closure of the final town centre mine nicknamed “The Green Room”. The main landmark is the crooked spire of the Church of St Mary and All Saints . Chesterfield was in the Hundred of Scarsdale. The town received its market charter in 1204 from King John , which constituted the town as a free borough , granting the burgesses of Chesterfield the privileges of those of Nottingham and Derby . In 1266,

3096-412: The coal industry were lost and all collieries closed, although open cast mining took place at Arkwright Town for a few years from November 1993. Many mine sites were restored by a contractor for Derbyshire County Council. Little evidence of mining remains. A cyclists' and walkers' route, the "Five Pits Trail", links some former mines; most are now indistinguishable from the surrounding countryside. In

3168-440: The design for the monument to his old regiment, the Royal Scots , in Princes Street Gardens , Edinburgh. Mears was keenly interested in rural issues and in 1926 he played a key role in the establishment of the Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland (APRS). He was critical of the insensitivity of the Ministry of Transport's proposal to drive a modern trunk road through Glencoe and, in response to representations by

3240-400: The earlier 16th century. The seal depicts a stylised pomegranate tree. When the arms were formally granted, the College of Arms expressed the view that the plant had been adopted by the town as a symbol of loyalty to the crown, as it had been a royal badge used by Katherine of Aragon , Henry VIII and Mary Tudor . The crest depicts a Derby Ram , representing the county of Derbyshire, and

3312-769: The early 1940s, and the two had corresponded while Fraser Darling was living on Tanera Mor. His 1969 BBC Reith Lectures (entitled Wilderness and Plenty ) were an important contribution to the growing debate on man's responsibility for his natural environment . They were described at the time as "an eloquent statement of the dependence of all living things on one another". Fraser Darling received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1971. He died in Forres in Morayshire in north-east Scotland in October 1979. Darling married three times: firstly in 1922 to Marion Fraser (dissolved); secondly in 1948 to Averil Morley (d.1957); thirdly in 1960 to Christina MacInnes Brotchie. Chesterfield, Derbyshire Chesterfield

3384-446: The encouragement of small rural industries based on indigenous resources. In 1931 he prepared a "Plan for Edinburgh" and in 1935 founded the first Town Planning course at the Edinburgh College of Art whilst Head of the School. Drawing on the work he had undertaken for the Civic Survey of Edinburgh, he wrote a number of articles on the planning of medieval settlements and the development of Edinburgh from Roman times. In 1943, Mears

3456-504: The first international gluten free beer festival was held in Chesterfield. The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) hosted the event as part of its regular beer festival in the town. The Winding Wheel, hitherto an Odeon Cinema , is a venue for concerts, exhibitions, conferences, dinners, family parties, dances, banquets, wedding receptions, meetings, product launches and lectures. Past notable performers include Bob Geldof , The Proclaimers and Paddy McGuinness . It also hosts performances of

3528-418: The largest being at Sheepbridge. Business located on the estate includes SIG plc subsidiary Warren Insulations, Franke Sisons Ltd (founded in 1784 in Sheffield and among the first to manufacture stainless steel kitchen sinks in the 1930s), Rhodes Group and Chesterfield Felt. Between the A61 and Brimington Road, there is a 40-acre (160,000 m ) development site resulting from Arnold Laver relocating to

3600-403: The openness and landscape qualities of large open areas, and "green wedges" penetrating urban areas with recreational facilities. The wider Chesterfield Urban Area had a population of 112,664 at the 2021 Census, this included the town of Chesterfield along with its surrounding suburbs and the outlying villages and towns of Wingerworth , Staveley , Cutthorpe and Holymoorside . Chesterfield

3672-437: The preliminary report of the West Highland Survey (1948) in his interim report on planning and redevelopment in the County of Sutherland (1951). In 1949, Julian Huxley , UNESCO 's first Director-General, invited Fraser Darling to be one of UNESCO's representatives at the United Nations conference on conservation at Lake Success on Long Island . Huxley had been interested in Fraser Darling's studies on animal behaviour since

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3744-446: The previous year. The area beside the library was redeveloped, but retains the old narrow passageways while accommodating small shop units and offices. On 27 June 2007, the Somerfield store in the Precinct was gutted in a fire in which the roof collapsed, a few shoppers suffering minor injuries. The fire reportedly started after a welding torch being used to repair flood damage had been left ignited. It started at 13:10 on 27 June and

3816-442: The problem of rural depopulation in its most acute form in a strategy for the planning and redevelopment of the County of Sutherland . In a plan strongly influenced by Frank Fraser Darling 's Preliminary Report on the West Highland Survey (1948), he advocated a strategy based on the regeneration of the crofting economy through measures such as land rehabilitation, tenure reform, investment in agriculture, forestry and fishing, and

3888-405: The railway station. Chesterfield taxis are recognisably black with distinctive white bonnets and boots. The nearest licensed airfield is Netherthorpe Aerodrome , near Worksop in Nottinghamshire , but has only 553 metres of grass runway. Air passengers may use East Midlands , Leeds Bradford , Manchester and Birmingham airports, all within two hours by road. The Chesterfield Canal linked

3960-512: The site is now host to a Tesco supermarket and the Proact Stadium , the home of Chesterfield Football Club . GKN closed its factory and the site is being turned into a business park. Other companies have downsized sharply. Robinson's, makers of paper-based packaging, divested its health-care interests, which led to a marked fall in the workforce and facilities in Chesterfield. Trebor , once based on Brimington Road near Chesterfield railway station , merged with Bassetts sweets of Sheffield,

4032-430: The site of the old bus station; it is served by Stagecoach and National Express coaches . Routes connect the town with Bradford, Leeds, Leicester, London and Sheffield. Chesterfield railway station lies on the Midland Main Line . It is served by three train operating companies : Chesterfield once had two other railway stations: The railways crossed each other at Horns Bridge , the Midland Main Line passing over

4104-447: The supporters' necks. The two birds stand on a compartment of rocks and moorland. The motto is "Aspire", a punning reference to the crooked spire of the parish church. In March 2016 the borough council began a bid to join the Sheffield City Region Combined Authority , which was due to receive devolved powers. Derbyshire County Council opposed this and sought legal advice. In June 2017 Chesterfield Council withdrew its application, but

4176-432: The time of his birth, and was killed in action on the Kenya - Tanganyika border in 1917. In 1966, Darling revealed to his son that the pioneering plant geographer, Charles Edward Moss , was his uncle. After running away from school at the age of 15, Darling was sent to work on a farm in the Pennines . He then studied at the Midland Agricultural College (now part of the University of Nottingham ), at Sutton Bonington in

4248-448: The town to a national network of waterways through the 19th century. Overtaken by rail and then road for freight transport, it fell into disuse, but has been partially restored since the mid-20th century for leisure use. However, the section through Chesterfield remains isolated from the rest of the waterway network. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from

4320-440: The town, large factories and major employers have disappeared or relocated. Markham & Co. manufactured tunnel boring machines such as the one used for the Channel Tunnel . It was bought out by Norway's Kvaerner and later merged with Sheffield-based Davy. Its factory on Hollis Lane is now a housing estate ; the former offices were turned into flats and serviced office suites. Dema Glass's factory near Lockoford Lane closed;

4392-488: The town: Stagecoach East Midlands and Stagecoach Yorkshire are the predominant bus operators in Chesterfield; others include Hulleys of Baslow , Trent Barton and TM Travel . Buses stop in several areas around the town centre, rather than at a central bus station. The Stagecoach depot at Stonegravels is notable for its size and many vehicles stored there are not in regular use; it was Chesterfield Corporation's bus depot. Chesterfield coach station opened in 2005, on

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4464-556: The work of the Institute of Animal Genetics at Edinburgh University , and in the early 1930s the Director, Francis Albert Eley Crew , offered him a place there to study for a PhD. From 1929 to 1930 he was Director of the Commonwealth Bureau of Animal Breeding and Genetics, part of the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux , at Edinburgh. In 1934, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . His proposers included Francis Albert Eley Crew , William Christopher Miller , and A. D. Buchanan Smith . Living at Dundonnell and later in

4536-440: Was a major extension when the borough absorbed New Whittington and Newbold urban district in 1920. Chesterfield's current boundaries date from 1 April 1974, when the Borough of Chesterfield was formed under the Local Government Act 1972 by amalgamating the municipal borough of Chesterfield , the urban district of Staveley and the parish of Brimington from Chesterfield Rural District . Chesterfield benefitted much from

4608-488: Was appointed to a lecturing post in the Anatomy Department of Edinburgh University . His mother, Isabella Bartholomew LDCPE (1853–1936), was one of the first licensed physicians in Scotland and an early Taoist author. The family lived at Woodburn House on Canaan Lane in the Morningside district of Edinburgh. He trained as an architect, initially under Hippolyte Blanc (1896–1901), and then, in 1903, under Robert Weir Schultz (1860–1951). In 1906, after tours of England and

4680-430: Was asked to prepare a regional plan for catchments of the Rivers Forth and Tweed. His Interim Report on Population Trends in March 1945 identified sharply contrasting challenges in the two catchments. Future developments indicated in the Report of the Scottish Coalfields Committee at the end of 1944 suggested that, in anticipation of a large increase in population, the problem in the Forth Basin would be to find sites for

4752-399: Was engaged by the World Zionist Organization to prepare a scheme for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . Frank Mears worked as his assistant, translating his ideas into plans and architectural drawings. Between 1925 and 1929, Mears worked with the Jerusalem -based architect, Benjamin Chaikin, on designs for specific university buildings, including the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and

4824-402: Was later taken over by Cadbury and relocated to a modern unit at Holmewood business park. The earlier factory site is now developed as part of a mixed residential and commercial site. Manufacturing employment has fallen by a third since 1991, though the proportion of employees in manufacturing is still above the national average. Today, smaller firms are found on several industrial estates,

4896-530: Was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1946 New Year Honours . He also advised the Department of Health on Housing in Scotland. Frank Mears died in Christchurch , New Zealand whilst visiting his son, Kenneth Patrick Geddes Mears (1916–2001). His body was returned to Edinburgh for cremation. A memorial plaque is placed to his memory on the south side of Warriston Crematorium above a plaque to his other two sons both of whom died young: Alastair Mears (1918-1939) and John M. Mears (1921–1949). In 1919, Patrick Geddes

4968-506: Was not extinguished until 23:30 that day. After the fire, Somerfield decided to cease trading in Chesterfield. The unit re-opened in September 2008 as a Tesco Metro store. Vicar Lane was redeveloped in 2000 as a pedestrianised open-air shopping centre creating two new shopping streets. This meant demolishing almost all of the existing buildings, including a Woolworths branch and a small bus station. It now includes major chains such as H&M and Iceland. The development had been planned in

5040-423: Was prominently displayed for many years and nicknamed Isaiah by local critics, as it resembled a crude human face with one eye higher than the other ("eye's 'igher"). The work was due to be sold in 2005, but reprieved as a work of national significance. Other artworks of note include A System of Support and Balance by Paul Lewthwaite , outside Chesterfield Magistrates' Court. The town is bisected north-south by

5112-440: Was published in 1948. In 1940, Mears was appointed planning consultant to the Corporation of Greenock . In a plan entitled Greenock: Portal of the Clyde (1947) he argued that the scale and character of future housing development, social facilities and services should reflect the industrial potential offered by the town's strategic location on the Firth of Clyde . Patrick Abercrombie 's Clyde Valley planning team had identified

5184-665: Was used as the town's main library. The museum is owned by Chesterfield Borough Council, as are the Winding Wheel and the Pomegranate Theatre. The box office for both venues is located in the entrance area of the theatre. The Royal Mail building, Future Walk, in West Bars, was once the site of Chetwynd House, referred to locally as the AGD. Here a work by sculptor Barbara Hepworth Curved Reclining Form or Rosewall

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