This site takes you on a walk around Victorian Ilkeston, with Adeline Wells as guide, and myself, Dave Johnson, as provider of supplementary history.

In the 1930’s Adeline wrote a series of letters to the Ilkeston Advertiser, describing her life in the town as a child and these help us navigate our route around the area and introduce us to its main characters. 

End of Season (1980) by the late David Johnson (1924-2002)

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The postcard picture below, sent in by Pam Bates shows where our journey begins … at the bottom of Bath Street, with the Mundy Arms on the left and the Rutland Hotel on the right. The scene is dated about 1909 (?)


The postcard is dated on the reverse … April 14th 1925. You can find out more about it here. 


For more on this terrific photo, kindly sent to the site by Anita, see here (Day 8) or here

Recent Additions

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

Jan 8th ... find out all that happened in 1857 ... Old Ilson Blog

Jan 7th ... Ilkeston's new sewage farm 1884

Jan 6th ... the Local Board Map 1866 and other maps of Ilkeston

Jan 6th ... a new page on the Bath Street/East Street corner

Dec 31st ... Old Ilson Blog for 1856 now complete ,,, find out all that happened in that year !!

Dec 27th ... all Victorian  Ilkeston Birth Registrations 1837-1901 now listed

Dec 24th ... revised sections on Henry Carrier

Dec 23rd ... new pages on the Property of Henry Carrier & Sons in Bath St and East St

Dec 19th ... more on the Maltby family, thanks to Jonathan Morton

Dec 12th ... more on the Haywood and Richards families here, here, and here

Dec 11th ... a few photos of the St. Mary's National Schoolrooms

Dec 10th ... part 1 of a section on the Haywood and Richards families of Flamstead Road

Dec 3rd ... a courting couple caught in the ... wheat field

Nov 28th ... the puzzle of Frank Hallam's Row

Nov 23rd ... more on the York family, especially son David, thanks to Sally Kent

Nov 22nd ... a bit of military background on the Allcock brothers of Bath St.

Nov 19th ... more about Ilkeston's drinking establishments

Nov 17th ... Starvation on Ilkeston Common 1863

Nov 11th ... Forbidden Marriages in Ilkeston

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