Chesterfield Races (Barlow point-to-point) 1933

This meeting was the Barlow point-to-point held at Ashgate, Chesterfield on May 3rd 1933. It was originally thought to be filmed in the late 1920s at the Whittington Moor races. The text below reflects that. (One of the last races on Whittington Moor before the Corporation bought the area form housing in 1924. The races were held every year from about 1685 and were usually run the two days before Goodwood. After 1871 they were run as flapper races and not under the Jockey Club rules. The course ran down what is now Stand Road and down Pottery Lane. It then went where East Side is and on to Brimington Road North. The horses would continue adjacent to Sheffield Road and up where Racecourse Road is now to finish in front of the Grandstand which was close to the site of the present Cricketers Pub.)