Old Ilkeston

Welcome to Old Ilkeston – the growing story of a Victorian town

Spot the Ilkeston connection ?

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Check out Ilkeston Ancestry , our exciting Facebook group.

You can write to the site with questions or stories, or contribute your own material.

Use either the Contact Form (left) or email me … [email protected]

To find your way around the site, there is a guide, a main index to the Grand Tour, and a supplementary index which is updated every month. You can also use the search boxes — top right and top left — or use the menus on most of the pages.

Recent Additions for 2025

June 20th ... the 1832 Great Reform Act and Ilkeston

April 30th ... an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions

April 21st ... the Local Board and Ilkeston's infant fire brigade

April 19th ... more detail on the Mason family of candlemakers

April 16th ... William Campbell and his family revisited and revised

February 28th ... an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions

February 27th ... a revised look at the west side of Bath Street, from Providence Place to the Poplar Inn

February 19th ... the short career of John Spray

February 12th ... more detail on the residents of Burgin's Yard

February 9th ... when and by whom was Ilkeston's first Methodist chapel built ? Mystery solved !!

February 8th ... another look at Warner's Yard

February 4th ... more on the Sudbury family in South Street and in Queen Street

February 1st ... George Smith, post mortem

January 1st ... a new year and a new project. With gracious generosity, Ann Featherstone has donated to the site much of her data on burials at the Stanton Road Cemetery , compiled with meticulous and painstaking research. This will help to fill in some of our existing gaps. I have just started incorporating these into the site. You can find the first entry here. The records will gradually appear in the section on Stanton Road Burials 1864 onwards (under Ilkeston deaths and burials).

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A notorious Ilkestonian ?

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Recognise this building ?

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Any idea who the oarsman is ? Clue: he was very comfortable on water

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The Victorian Era ends

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A list of updates for 2025 can be found here

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A part of Ilkeston about 1800 … but which part ? (from Jim Beardsley’s Collection)

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Jim Beardsley has very kindly loaned a bundle of unique documents to the Old Ilkeston site from his personal collection. The papers include fascinating details of Victorian property ownership. All of the plans below are from Jim’s collection.

Any idea what this plan below is showing ? .. there are lots of clues within it.