DRONFIELD SKYLINE

Dronfield Skyline this month with a slight touch of humour is taking a look at Coal Aston and asking questions about our sense of locality and what this really means in an age of globalisation. Your contributions are welcome.

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Focus on Coal Aston

There are about 23,000 people living in Dronfield.
The town is spread over a range of low lying hills in the north eastern corner of Derbyshire.
Although officially in Derbyshire it is really midway between Chesterfield and Sheffield. Only six miles in each direction.

Around 3,300 of the Dronfield population live in Coal Aston. Out of these 3,300 people the vast majority are over 25 years of age. A sizeable number of those are of retirement age.

Does this mean that Coal Aston is a sleepy sort of place or does it contain some 'Hidden Treasures'? Not exactly but there are numerous courses on offer designed to get people involved in improving their general abilities and skills regardless of age. There is also a thriving village hall which hosts numerous events some of them quite surprising. A Baha'i from a neighbouring community just celebrated his 60th birthday there in April along with about a hundred invited guests.


This guest could have been accused of being drunk and disorderly but just seems to be lost and confused. Where did his partner get now now in this fast moving Barn Dance?