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Tuesday 4th June 2013 at 7.30pm
Read more »Open coffee morning
Between 10am and 2pm
Saturday, 25th May
U-Choose Smoothie Bar, Bath Street, Ilkeston
Members of the public and the Society are invited . . .
Read more »Welcome to the Ilkeston and District Local History Society (IDLHS) website. If you are a new visitor, please find time to browse through the pages of the website and feel free to send any questions, comments or suggestions you have — details can be found on the Contact us page. In the mean time, enjoy your visit.
The site features information about the IDLHS: membership, forthcoming Society meetings and events, Society publications, brief histories of Ilkeston, Dale Abbey, St Mary’s Church, Ilkeston’s Markets and Fairs, the local coal industry and the Stanton Ironworks, etc. and details of other sites and areas of interest within the district.
The Society holds indoor and outdoor events throughout the year, to which all are welcome; you can find a full programme on the Events page.
This Autumn has been a busy and exciting time for the Society. Not only have we unveiled two granite plaques highlighting the historical origins of both the upper and lower market places, but we have two new and eagerly-awaited publications.
The plaque on the left is attached to the wall of The Observatory and that on the right to the wall of the Sir John Warren.
The first is Railway Tales by Grant Shaw and Paul Miller.
Railway Tales went on sale on Saturday 22nd September — find ordering details for this book and others on the Publications page.
Already on the third printing!
The authors and a happy customer
at the book signing
See Ilkeston’s railways in action on YouTube.
Around and About Town will take another pictorial look at the way Ilkeston has changed over the past 100 years or so. But whereas our two previous publications Bottom to Top of Town and Top of Town concentrated on Bath Street, the Market Place, South Street and White Lion Square, Around and About Town will include many previously unseen images from Cotmanhay, around the town centre, Little Hallam and Hallam Fields.
More than 320 sold so far — order yours soon!
Everybody’s after a copy: Erewash MP Jessica Lee picked up hers at the book signing. One hundred and thirty copies were sold — pick up yours from the Ilkeston Library, Erewash Museum or Paul’s U-Choose Smoothie Bar on Bath Street, priced just £6.00.
For other books and maps available from the Society, please see our Publications page.
Stephen Flinders collecting a cheque from Councillor Carol Hart on behalf of the Society, outside Long Eaton Town Hall. The £375 was awarded by Erewash Borough Council Community Grants Scheme to help towards buying a sound system for use at our monthly meetings. The award went half way to meeting the cost of the sound equipment.
Monthly meetings are held in the Lower Meeting Hall of the United Reform Church, Ilkeston — entrance off Albert Street.
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Acknowledgements: The Society would like to sincerely thank Erewash Museum and Ilkeston Library for the use of its photographic collection.
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