00:00Hello, I'm Philip Ryden, I'm the editor of the Victoria County History in Derbyshire
00:05and I have a long-standing interest in the history of Chesterfield, my hometown.
00:09I've been asked to say something about some of the more interesting buildings in the town centre.
00:13The Royal Oak is one of those buildings in Chesterfield which is always deemed to be historic
00:18and around which as much myth and legend has grown up as real history.
00:22The facts of the matter, as far as one can establish, are that the brick-built part of the pub
00:28has been a pub since 1772.
00:31The timber-framed section was put together, I suspect from remnants of other timber-framed buildings
00:37in the Shambles that were being demolished around the same date,
00:40was put together about 1900, heavily restored.
00:44The core of it probably is a 16th century box-framed building, but it wasn't a pub, it wasn't an old inn.
00:50The building was being used as two butcher shops in the 1840s.
00:54It was only added to the Royal Oak later on.
00:57The plaque, the building has for many years had a plaque on one side of it proclaiming
01:02that it has some connection with the Knights Templars, which is complete nonsense, I'm afraid.
01:07But nonetheless, it's a well-worn and popular story in Chesterfield.
01:11What you're looking at, in fact, is an 18th century brick-built pub
01:15with an early 20th century timber-framed addition.
01:19What you're looking at, in fact, is an 18th century timber-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed.
01:29What you're looking at is an 18th century timber-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed-framed.
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