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 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...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
A second Society plaque now adorns the walls of the Sir John Warren in the Market Place commemorating the Ilkeston Bicycle Club and the town’s champion rider, Fred Fletcher. Fred was born over his father’s chemist shop at 69 Bath Street on 8 August 1869....
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | Curiosities, News
If you don’t have access to Facebook you won’t be aware of the large number of posts on various topics which appeared during the Covid lockdowns. Grant Shaw made one a day for over four months, with some new material but also extracts...
