by Editor | Mar 15, 2025 | News, Social Histories
From the Ilkeston Pioneer of 6 September 1912 A man who gave the name of ‘Ben Warren’ the ex-Derby County footballer, but who turned out to be the notorious George William Atkin, alias ‘Fatty Atkin’, a native of Ilkeston, was found wandering in a nude condition in...
by Editor | Mar 15, 2025 | News, Ilkeston’s Industries
The Stantonian, (Magazine of Stanton Ironworks) Vol 22, No.6, April 1961 “In our last issue readers were given a brief account of the floods caused when the Nutbrook stream overflowed its banks on Sunday December 4th last year. The floods were caused by exceptionally...
by Editor | Apr 6, 2024 | News
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by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
Our plaque on his former home at ‘Ferns Hollow’ on Station Road, Ilkeston marks the birthplace of a famous son of Ilkeston, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Duncan Shaw MM BSc PhD DSC (Hon). A renowned marksman and soldier, he later became a lecturer at a...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
On 31st January 1916 a Zeppelin flew over the East Midlands passing over Ilkeston and the Stanton Iron Works and dropping bombs on the way, including at Bennerley Viaduct. Our plaque, placed by the Society on the north wall of the former St Bartholemew’s Church in...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
by Ann Featherstone and Beverley Kilby A look at some of the events, people and things that have shaped the Ilkeston we know today, written to celebrate 50 years of the Ilkeston and District Local History Society. Copies are available at just £10 (£13.50 by...
