A selection of articles from the Society’s journal, The Herald, written by the members. These articles were posted on our Facebook site where contributors had the opportunity to expand on the content — articles comments and new material from the social site have been collected together for this publication.

Price £8.00

The Ilkeston tramway was the first electric transport system in Derbyshire, built during an era of optimistic transport expansion with its hopes of cheap and efficient movement for the masses. It served the town for 27 years and always struggled to make ends meet.

This comprehensive book covers the inception, development, sale and ultimate replacement of the Ilkeston system.

Price £3.50

Who put the baby in the biscuit tin? Where was White’s Yard? And what became of the airport and bus station? Ann and Beverley recount fifty easily readable stories from Ilkeston’s past, many for the first time, in a review of some of the events, people and things that have shaped the Ilkeston we know today.

Price £13.50

In the summer of 1912 a young teacher, Frank Underwood, was appointed to a post in the new Bennerley County School for Boys. For the next three years Frank corresponded with a Miss B Stevens in his native Leicestershire, sending her more than 80 postcards of Ilkeston and district. This selection, with the messages he wrote on them, gives a fascinating snapshot of Ilkeston before the Great War.

Available in hardback or paperback.

Price £2.50

A companion volume to A Town on Two Wheels. In the final two decades of the nineteenth century the bicycling community was served by a surprising number of inventors, retailers, repairers and manufacturers in Ilkeston.

Deals on Wheels offers a complete Who Was Who of everyone involved in the local trade in the 1880s and 1890s.

Price £9.00