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 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...
by Editor | Mar 9, 2024 | Curiosities
How many of these businesses of years gone by do you remember? ...
by Editor | Mar 1, 2024 | Curiosities
Sir Balthazar Walter Foster PC FRCP was born to Balthazar Foster and his wife Marian on 17th July 1840. In 1847 the family moved to Foster Senior’s native Ireland, and Foster was educated at Drogheda Grammar School. In 1857 he attended Trinity College, Dublin, where...
by Editor | Feb 24, 2024 | Curiosities
(a longer read) by Danny Corns Many years ago, former Society Chairman David Harrison told me of a connection between the Short Brothers of aeronautical and flying boat fame and No. 3 Low’s Lane, Stanton. The Society discussed the placing of a blue plaque on 3 Low’s...
