To make navigation of the site easier for you, there is now an index to the Grand Tour, as well as a site guide at the end of it.
You should be able to find whatever you want from the site on this page, at the click of a button !!

You can still use the search boxes — top right and at the top of the left side-bar of this home page. Or use the menus on most of the pages.

And of course, you can still send your questions, contributions and comments to me via email ([email protected]) or by using the contact form on the left.

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What lies within this document ? … courtesy of Jim Beardsley’s personal collection.

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Sarah Marinah Ebbern (1885-1937), daughter of Thomas and Mary, seated behind the pilot …. thanks to Pam Bates

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A great photo from Mike Hallam … a trip from Derby to Great Masson cave at Matlock, with at least one Ilkeston resident (to be). Anyone hazard a guess as to the date.?  Do you see any relatives here ??!! Only a very few younger girls observes Mick.

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The Market Place area in 1800 … a new map

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Recent Additions

Apr 7th ... updates on the Brentnalls and the Anchor Inn

Apr 6th ... a new page on the Beardsleys at the Spring Cottage

Apr 3rd ... a new index for the Grand Tour (see left side-bar)

Mar 26th ... a full update of the Ebbern and Paling families

Mar 10th ... 1885 and the first election in the new Ilkeston Parliamentary Division

Mar 9th ... Gerald Gentz has sent in two items which he hopes will help Maltby researchers

Mar 8th ... the continuing story of George Henshaw

Mar 2nd ... Destitution in Gladstone Street, 1885.

Mar 1st ... a new page on George William Purcell senior and junior, thanks to the work of Roger Purcell

Feb 23rd ... a little on the Irish Lallys in Ilkeston

Feb 19th ... Job Whysall (1797-1884) and family

Feb 18th ... detail on the family of John Trueman of the Durham Ox. Can anyone help with more ?

Feb 16th ... a profile of George Henshaw ... my thanks to Rick Henshaw

Feb 16th ... the Market Place about 1800 -- a new page

Feb 10th ... an update of Adcock's Yard in Bath Street

Feb 8th ... the residents of Chain Row

Feb 6th ... the strange death of Alfred Carrier

Feb 3rd ... a revision of the Burr Lane Brentnalls

Jan 30th ... Victorian Ilkeston's lesser known Park and Recreation area and Park Avenue

Jan 28th ... a new page on the old premises on the east side of Lower Market Place

Jan 26th ... who were George Bunting's neighbours in the Lower Market Place ?

Jan 24th ... a Beardsley puzzle in the Spring Cottage Inn 

Jan 22nd ... part of a Henshaw family tree sent in by Rick Henshaw

Jan 21st ... Wombell vs the Ranters .. a new page of scandel !!!

Jan 16th ... a map to show Slade Chapel in Chapel Street

Jan 15th .. there is a post about the Knighton/Beacroft families from Jan Wasley

Jan 13th ... a new map to show Ilkeston Town Station in 1866

Jan 12th ... More detail on the history of the Poplar Inn

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Any contributions and comments are all very welcome.
If you have any questions about your own Ilkeston research please put them forward.
You can contact me either using the Contact Form on the sidebar or by email … [email protected]

 

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Dave Johnson