by Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Uncategorized, Curiosities
Extracted from the Ilkeston Advertiser 27th July 1962 By Grant Shaw A highlight of Ilkeston life in 1909. Mr David Martin of 29 Green Lane Larklands sent us this photograph of Superintendent Daybell on horseback riding at the head of the parade on Ilkeston’s Lifeboat...
by Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Curiosities
On the Banks of Allan Water By Grant Shaw Beverley Kilby recently gave me some scraps of a 1917 edition of the Ilkeston Pioneer newspaper, and these include the weekly adverts for ‘what’s on’ at the Kings and Scala Cinemas. I was immediately sucked into the rabbit...
by Editor | Jul 8, 2026 | Social Histories
Some memoirs by Frank Wilson My name is Frank Wilson, and I was born on the 12th of November 1936. I was the seventh child of Emma and William Wilson. I had two older brothers Bill and Edwin and three elder sisters Connie Ada and Jean; my elder sister Joan died in...
by Editor | Jul 1, 2026 | Transport, Social Histories
Article taken from Stanton and Staveley News, February 1967 “Some people call them barges, but this isn’t true. Barges, you see, are bigger vessels which will carry between 80 and 100 tons, whereas a canal boat – that’s what I lived on for over 40...
by Editor | Jul 1, 2026 | News, Curiosities
By Jeff Wynch William Fletcher came to Ilkeston from his home town of Southwell to set up as a chemist on Bath Street in 1868. Under the Pharmacy Act of that year, the terms Chemist and Druggist could only be legally used by those who had passed a basic Pharmaceutical...
