by Editor | Feb 17, 2024 | Social Histories
(A longer read) From information kindly supplied by Michael Harmer John and Gertrude Macdonald were married on 23rd July 1902 John Angus McDonald (the spelling was anglicised to ‘Macdonald’ when the family moved to England) was born on 27th December 1871 at the Easter...
by Editor | Feb 14, 2024 | Social Histories
(A longer read) When we think of the First World War, most of us think of trenches, machine guns and mud in France and Belgium. Most of the men from Ilkeston and District who went to war from 1914 to 1918 did fight in Picardy and Flanders, but local men also fought at...
by Editor | Feb 11, 2024 | Social Histories
Researched by Peter Cave. Sixty or so local men who served in the army during the Napoleonic Wars have so far been rediscovered. Mostly these are the survivors, the ones who were discharged when their time was up or when their strength or agility failed them. There...
by Editor | Feb 3, 2024 | Social Histories
Contributed by the late Paul Robinson When I was little, before and during the Kaiser’s War, Wharncliffe Road was still new and only partly developed. My grandfather, George Maltby, was in ‘The Red House’, which, in 1899, was the first to be built....
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Social Histories
This page contains more images which will be of interest to the family historian. Though not of the same social standing as some of those featured in Portrait Galleries 1 and 2, their names live on in local history and folklore. Jonathon BostockA Crier and Bill-Poster...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Social Histories
Most of the persons featured on this page were prominent members of the local community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as featured in two volumes produced by Edwin Trueman, both entitled Portrait Gallery of its Principal Inhabitants. The first being...
