Chesterfield Today — Crooked Spire & Real Life 🏙️

Chesterfield isn’t just the crooked spire — it’s a town full of history, character, and real struggles. 🏙️
From boarded shops to friendly locals, quirky street art, and stories of poverty and drugs, this walkthrough shows what Chesterfield is really like today.
We’ll explore the market, meet people on the streets, and uncover both the charm and the challenges of this once-thriving mining town.
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Excuse me, folks. I’m not from around here. Can I get out up here or have I just come up the wrong way? So, what do you guys do? Not a lot. I drink. That’s all right. There’s nothing wrong with a beer, mate. Drinking smoke. Yeah. Yeah. Have a smoke. Can you tell us about that pink dog? One positive thing, one negative thing. Full of drugs. Sorry. Full of drugs. Is it full of drugs around here? Would you say then? You going to get Is it all over town? I’ve not noticed it myself, but there again, I’m probably a bit blind to it. You’ll see him. Yeah. Zombies. What? Like, is it that spy stuff? Yeah. Yeah. And what about you two? No comment. No comment. Doc, what’s your name, Doc? No comment. No comment. Hi guys, and welcome back to the channel. And if you’re new around here, welcome to the channel. Today, where have I brought us? I brought us to Chesterfield. Um, it actually looks quite busy. It’s busiest town center I’ve been to for a while. Um, so we’re going to take a look around, speak to a few people. Uh, we’ve just entered the town now. What do I know about Chesterfield? They’ve got a crooked spire. And I just spoke to one of the locals before I put the camera on. And they actually say, myth has it, the reason it went crooked was they actually found a virgin to get married in it in Chesterfield. Uh, but joking aside, let’s look at the town center together and see what Chesterfield has to offer. Turn you around. We’ve actually got a suit shop, so there might be a few nicely dressed people around, but we’ll see. There you go. We see this every time we come into the town centers. One of the first shops you see cash converters, CEX. Now, straight away, that tells us something. Always maybe a bit of poverty. People hard up trying to pay that electric bill, selling the computer games, and what have you. There we go. Vape shop straight away. Discount booze. You never know. I might get a beer after. No, I certainly won’t. We’ve got to drive back to Stoke. So, looking at this, it looking like we’re coming into a market area. Um, obviously there’s no market on today, but I do hear from what I looked online, Chesterfield is quite a busy market town or once was. Um, it was also a real powerhouse in uh the mining generation and obviously I would imagine that’s affected Chesterfield as well since it all went. And again, soon as we get here, look at this. Boarded up metal plates, CCTV. Yeah. Welcome to Chesterfield. What else we got? What’s this one? Oh, traditional bakery. I bet that’s actually quite nice there, folks. Let’s have a look at these cakes. Yeah, that does look quite nice. We might even sample that, me and the cameraman today. We got a vape shop here. Um, is it shut? No, it’s open, but probably been uh vandalized at some point. I know it’s quite a big drinking town is Chesterfield. Apparently, there’s as many pubs as there is jobs. Wow, there’s a load going on here, folks. So, is this maybe where the main market town is? Excuse me, fella. What can you tell me about Chesterfield? Uh, it’s a very friendly and kind place. Well, that’s good to know. I normally get beat up and wear a stab vest wherever I go. How are you, Ducky? You’re all right. Yeah. What can you tell me about Chesterfield? Well, don’t live here. You don’t live here? Where are you from? Mansfield. Man, we were in Mansfield the other day. Yeah, we met some right characters there. What’s your name? Toby. Toby. Leah. Leah. I’m John. Pleased to meet you. You’re going to be on Sky News tonight, you know. Oh, okay. All right. Tune in 6:00. Famous. We’ll make you famous. Do you want to say hello to anyone? No. No. Hey, see you later. There you go then. First people we’ve met. Nice and jolly. I like that. Right. Moving on. Oh, yeah. We were talking about this construction. I think this is the main uh well maybe not the main market area but obviously going to be one by the look of it. Looks amazing. Let’s not get run over by this uh dumper truck or whatever it is. [Music] Yeah, they’re obviously spending a lot of money on it. Thomas B City Okay. Oh, here’s a bit we can walk around. Look. So, this bit must already be done, finished, and open. It looks really good, actually. I’m quite impressed. It’s a shame we haven’t come on a market day. Hi. Are you all right? You going to be on telly? Everyone does seem friendly around here. It’s great. And everyone’s got both their ears, so it’s not like Mansfield. Life in the UK today. Like and subscribe. There we go. Some new subscribers. What we got here, folks? Is there anything we can read about it? No, nothing we can read. What’s this about, lady? Do you know? It’s been there forever. I think it’s uh part part of the old market. Really? Right. Okay. It certainly looks older than me. Yes. I think uh people like when the market was going up years ago, they used to come and uh have drinks here. Right. Brilliant. Nice talking to you. What’s your name? Jane. Jane. I’m John. Take care. Right. So, we just met Jane. She gives a little bit of information about that monument or whatever you want to call it. Let’s see what else the town has to offer. There’s not really much down this street to be fair, folks. I mean, yeah, there is shops, but it just seems a little bit quieter. I wonder if I’ve come up off the main part of the town. I’m sure someone in the comments will let me know where I am. So, if you are from Chesterfield, guys, you let us know in the comments as well what you think about the town. I think it’s quite nice. Little cobble streets. Really good. Oh, they have got a market. We won’t go in though cuz they don’t really like us filming in these places. Doesn’t look like there’s a lot going on in there. There’s another pub. Seems to be quite a lot. So, what I read online was right. And if you look up there, there’s another one. Now, now this looks like the the old market area then. Anyone’s got. So, did I kind of come up the wrong road and come out of town? Unless they use both ends for the market. If so, it really is still quite big, isn’t it? I mean, I went to Mansfield the other day. I don’t know if you saw that video. Um, but there was literally nothing there marketwise, there’s a bargain shop. Look, again, something you see in every town center. And again, a sign of the times, unfortunately. So, we’ll go over up this way now. Oh, look at this building here. Old TUDA building. It’s probably going to be a cafe or pub or something like that, but we’ll go and have a look. Yeah, coffee shop. That is beautiful though, folks. I’m liking this town center. What’s the hub? Is it a banking hub? No. Not sure what that is. There’s even more stores over here. Look as well. [Music] So, [Music] we’re obviously back to where we began really and it’s very noisy unfortunately. Got another old pub there again. Very old building, TUDA building. So, we’re heading up now to where the uh spire is. It’s another little part of town we’ve just found. Like I say, we’re not from around here. We don’t know the area. And there you go. There’s the CEX I mentioned earlier. There’s always one, isn’t there? Mom’s gone to Iceland. Vintage tea rooms. That’s where you pay 15 quid for a breakfast probably. No offense. Vintage tea rooms. Phone shop as always. Phone repair. Yeah, just not quite sure how far away the spire is. Should we say hello to some locals? Hi folks, what can you tell me about Chesterfield? Nothing. Is it that bad or is it that good? It’s all right. It’s all right. Have you lived here all your life? Don’t actually live in Chesterfield. Oh, where you from? Drumfield. Oh, I know Drumfield. It’s not too far from here, is it? When I say I know it, I don’t know it, but I know I know of it. Yeah. Yeah. All right, then. Thanks for contributing. Well, people have uh not many words, but there you go. And everyone I’ve spoke to today isn’t from Chesterfield. What’s this place? Another smash window just up there. Another closed shop. There’s one over there. Just looked like it’s being done up to be fair. That’s a good sign. Business is open. Open opening rather than closing. Oh, there it is. The crooked spire. Let’s see if there’s any garden area around there. If people sit around, see if anybody can tell us anything about it. I’m not sure. I think we’ve took a bit of a wrong way, but we’ll have a look. We’ll see what’s going on. Excuse me, folks. I’m not from around here. Can I get out up here or have I just come up the wrong way? No, go out through there. And that take me back to the road? Yeah. Well, I take you down tip duty. Go for duty. Take you down into main. All right. All right. So, are you guys from Chesterfield? Yeah. So, I’m John, mate. What’s your name? Richard. Richard, you don’t mind me filming you, do you? Just having a bit of a walk around. We It’s documentary Chesterfield. What can you tell me about it? Well, not really. One positive thing, one negative thing. Full of drugs. Sorry. Full of drugs. Is it full of drugs? Is it all over town? I’ve not noticed it myself, but there again, I’m probably a bit blind to it. You’ll see. Yeah, zombies. What? Like, is it that spy stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve seen things like on YouTube. They are zombies, aren’t they? Yep. I love it. And what about you two? No comment. No comment. Doc, what’s your name, Doc? No comment. No comment. All right, then. Well, I’ll leave you alone. Thanks for contributing. No worries. Catch you later. look after yourself. God bless. So there you go. We took a wrong turn. We bumped into a couple of the locals. They didn’t have anything positive to say and they’d said there’s a big drug problem. Um so we’ll keep walking around, see what we see. I’ve not seen any so far. Well, apart from them, obviously. Let’s hope they sort their lives out. So here we go, folks. We are at the spire now. Incredible. Correct me if I’m not right, but I think it’s called St. Mary’s, but like I say, I’m not 100% sure. We’ll see if anybody around here can tell us a little bit about it. Church gift shop. I don’t think they’ll want us in there filming. We’ll have a little nosy. But we’ll go a bit further back. Have a proper look at it. It is cool. Excuse me, lads. You know this crooked twisted spire? Yeah. I presume it wasn’t built like that on purpose. No, it but it it were because the wood was still a bit damp. Yeah, that Yeah, that’s what Oh, so when it dried out it twisted. All right. Okay. It’s cool though, isn’t it? What about you, L? You from Chesterfield? Yeah, I’m from Chesterfield. Yeah. Yeah. What can you tell me about it? I’ve spokeen to about five people. Yeah. And everyone said I’m not from here. Residential. It’s quite nice. Yeah. I’ve read on I’ve read online it has got some rough bits but it’s nice it’s gone where’s rough around here would you say then rough you’re going to get rough around here it’s it’s only going to be same as where we’ve been from I’d say so yeah right just where I’ve walked through already is that good on you yeah life in the UK today mace at the minute it is on you that’s okay isn’t it that’s all right it’s fine yeah that’s good lad what’s your name I’m Liam Liam I’m John. What’s your name, bud? I’m Terry. Sorry. Terry. I thought you said I’m the same. I thought No, we not got two Liams here. You’re having You’re pulling my leg. So, what do you guys do? Not a lot. I drink. That’s all right. There’s nothing wrong with a beer, mate. Drink and smoke. Yeah. Yeah. Have a smoke. Long as you look after yourself as well, you know. Important, mate. Yeah, I know. Yeah. I keep I keep being told that quite a lot quite often. Yeah. You know what? When you’re young Yeah. It’s all right. I’m 29. Yeah, but you know another 10 years. Yeah, if you do drink a lot and I’m not saying you’re an alche or anything like that, don’t get me wrong, but you know if you are overdoing it in 10 years, your body won’t all feel it, mate. In fact, your body feels everything. You feel it now, do you, mate? Yeah. Yeah. Bloody hell. Kidney is not so much love. Yeah. Yeah, he’s with me. Don’t worry, Johnny. John. John. John. That’s it. You see, you went far. Did you say John at first? I did. Yeah. I thought you did. Yeah. And you’re Liam and you’re Terry. Yeah, we’ll call you call you the two Liams then. Mind me, I’ve had a few supers. So, have you? Yeah. What about yourself, mate? What you doing with yourself? I went to uh CEX and uh PlayStation sometimes taking discs. So, all right. Oh, get one repaired or Yes, get it repaired. All right. We were talking about CEX earlier. I was saying you see them in every town now, which is also a sign of the poverty in areas where people are having to sell their stuff. Test generator. converters, haven’t we? Cash converters. We went past that. Yeah. And you know, it’s a shame when people are selling the stuff just to pay bills and get by or have a kestrel like Liam here, lads. Nice talking to you. Thanks for contributing. Kestrel. I’ll be honest with you, mate. I’ve never had his I’ve never had his. Is it Oh, it’s not a cider. It’s like Stella. No, it’s like like strong Stella. Right. So, it blows your head off. Yeah. Well, if it helps you get through the day, mate. But take care of yourself. Yeah. Yeah. And you, mate. Nice talking to you. Thanks for not trying to stab me or threaten me. Thanks for your contribution, lads. Take care. Yeah. A woman if a nice looking woman had jumped on you. I’m I’m glad I’m not then lads. Take care. We’ll catch you later. Turn lads. Right. So, that was Liam. That was Terry. They spent the time to speak with me. That was nice. I mean, you can see Liam there. Bless him. You know, he’s obviously got a bit of a drink problem, but hopefully before he gets too late, he’ll try and do something about it. So, God bless him. Well, we couldn’t leave Chesterfield. Chesterfield, sorry, without coming in the crooked spire. So, let’s have a little look around together. What an absolutely awesome building. I don’t know if my camera works doing it any justice, but this is one hell of a church. You can almost smell the age of it. And it was interesting when we spoke to Liam earlier how he told us the beams were up and they were wet and then when they dried, that’s what caused the twist. Oh, we can go further down there as well. Let’s go have a look. St. Peter’s Chapel. What we got here? We got Henry. I’ll let you guys read that one. The whale bone theories. So, let you guys have a read of that. Overall though, it’s been a great visit to Chesterfield. What I have got to say, out of all the different towns we see, Chesterfield still looks like it’s thriving. To be fair, this is the quietest day for Chesterfield apparently a Wednesday. And there was quite a few people about. Not many shops damaged or boarded up. It really has been a nice visit. Hi, ladies. You all right? And everybody’s friendly around here. It really is a friendly little town. And there you go, guys. That’s the spire. So, we’ve had a good little walk around Chesterfield. We’ve met some characters. It’s not been a bad little uh video. Hey, these are unusual folks. I don’t know if the camera is picking them up. One’s holding bananas. I think that’s a cabbage. And I think that’s a melon. That is a bit strange. This is like a little courtyard shopping yard. I think it was called um Falcon. Some massive plastic doggy. It looks like it’s been made of slime. Some kind of symbolic key. There’s no plaque or anything. So, there must be a reason for it. If you’re from Chesterfield, get in the comments and let me know what the big pink slime dog’s all about. Right, let’s carry on through uh this little falcon sensor. Little barbie shop there. That looks quite nice. How we doing? All right. Doing all right. Yeah, not too bad. So, it’s it’s called the Falcon Yard. This is it. Yes. This is Falcon Yard. That’s 30 yard. Oh, right. That that’s different then. Yeah, that’s 30 yard. Can you tell us about that pink dog? Not a clue. And it’s got a weird key. It weren’t meant to be weren’t meant to be originally. It went pink with the change of light right. And we’ve got no idea what the key symbolizes. Not a clue. Some If you look up, there’s some weird quer key. I’ve seen the thing holding bananas, cabbages, and one light bulb up there. Yeah. Some weird, right? It’s a cool little courtyard. Yeah, it’s cool, isn’t it? It used it used to be rough, but my my my man said back in Davis, you’ve stayed away from this area of town. Just this bit. Just this bit. It’s not like that now. Yeah. It’s not like it anymore. No, it seems pretty quiet. You know, we go around a lot of towns and it’s um it’s Wednesday as well. Wednesday’s like half a day in Chesterfield on that. Yeah. So, it’s always after school like school kicks out. It’s quiet, you know. Yeah. Right. Right. The podiatrist across used to be a pet shop back when I were a kid. Right. Okay. So, you’re you’re born and bread here then? Yeah. How long have you had the barber shop? Uh shop’s been open six. Right. All right. Well established then. It’s Jordan’s business. All right. Nice. Well, Jordan, I’m John. Yeah. Nice meeting you. Nice to meet you, mate. We love it down here. Quirky. It is quirky, mate. We We kind of missed this walking by and then I took a double take and I went, we’ve got to go down there and get that on film. We were about to go. Yeah. What you film? It’s a cool place. We we just go around town centers and uh cities across the UK and just document the areas and speak to people YouTube. Yeah. Uh life in the UK today. Have a look. You’ll be on as well. This the shambles that Larry called the shambles. Head up here and go not the alleyway with the bins, but the next one little pub is a body shop and it’s a couple of independent. Oh, that sounds pretty cool. And that’s very similar to down here in Shambles. That’s cool. Well, Dan, nice speak to you lads. Thanks for contributing to the channel. No problem at all. Keep an eye out live for the UK. You’ll be on. Cheers, guys. Cheers. See you later, lads. Well, there you go. They were really friendly and that’s a great little barber shop. So, guys, if you need your haircut and you’re in Chesterfield, the Barber Collective in the Falcon Yard is the place to go. Really friendly chaps. Well, everybody, I think that’s it for Chesterfield today. So, thank you for watching. Thank you everybody for contributing. 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