December 31st … an updated Supplementary Index which includes the new additions this month
December 31st … the property empire of William Warner in 1890
December 30th … what connected Bath Street auctioneer and pawnbroker John Parkin to the Midland Commercial Temperance Hotel in 1890 ?
December 28th … Part 1 of a ‘new vicar’: Edward Muirhead Evans
December 22nd … a little detail on the bankruptcy of Bath Street baker Amos Beardsley
December 18th … the Salvation Army in Ilkeston
December 17th … the disappearing tomb of William de Cantilupe
December 12th … George Henry Buckley and Frances Marie Beaumont
December 12th … more on Weaver Row and its residents
December 10th … an update and extra information on two Bath Street shopkeepers, here and here
December 1st … more Victorian photo images
November 30th ... an updated Supplementary Index which includes the new additions this month
November 28th … what connection did Jack the Ripper have with the Rev, Albert Eubule Evans of Kirk Hallam ?
November 25th … improvements, extensions and accidents at the Queen’s Head
November 24th … Scandel in Albion Place
November 13th … 1887: a significant year for Ilkeston Town Council, the School Board and Chaucer Street Schools
November 10th … 1887: Aldred vs Aldred (nee Wheeldon) and the Married Women’s Property Act of 1882
November 1st … Liberal ladies !!
October 31st … an updated Supplementary Index which includes the new additions this month
October 23rd … want to read the will of Thomas Potter (1687-1765) ? supplied by a contributor from New Zealand
October 23rd … a new page on the significance of William Felkin — and his connection with Ilkeston
October 4th … George Andrew comes to town
September 30th … an updated Supplementary Index which includes the new additions this month
September 28th … an analysis of the inns at Gallows Inn bridge based on an article by the late Peter Stevenson
September 23rd … an addition on the Market Place business of Greenhough and Johnson
September 14th … John Knighton and his lost bacon 1856
September 13th … Ilkeston Gallows
September 3rd … The new ‘Old Manor Football Ground’ 1893
August 31st … Supplementary index updated
August 30th … more on the Rope Walk
August 17th … a new page on Grove Terrace, off the Rope Walk
August 5th … the origin of Shipstone Street
July 31st … the Fritchley Estate off South Street, from Jim Beardsley’s documents
July 23rd … Thelma Wigley has kindly added some detail and a photo to the Wigley family at the Market Inn
July 14th … Samuel Shaw’s estate in Lower Chapel Street and beyond .. thanks to more of Jim Beardsley’s documents
June 30th … a new page on building developments in Station Road 1881-1901
June 25th … a revision of, and added detail to, the history of the New Inn at Providence Place
June 18th … a Town Station postcript, contained in Jim Beardsley’s documents
June 2nd … more from the Jim Beardsley archive, as we examine Burr Lane
May 30th … thanks to Tony Gale for sending some interesting detail on his 2nd Great Grand uncle, William Gillam, the photographer featured on the Ebbern/Paling Music Box
May 25th … another addition from the archive of Jim Beardsley, this time in Stanton Road
May 21st … Pam Bates has kindly donated copies of certificates (Birch, Ebbern and Paling families) and one Beardsley will
May 20th … 1849-1930: New housing in Station Road
May 19th … a further update on the New Inn
May 15th … more detail on the New Inn at 77 Bath Street
May 14th … want to read the Will of Samuel Birch (1777-1859) ? … you can, thanks to Pam Bates
May 4th … revisions of, and additions to, the Ebbern/Paling photo collection
May 3rd … a new page on Thomas Ebbern and the Cromwell Buildings in Bath Street
May 2nd … the origin of Critchley Street
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, thankd 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 … a little 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 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
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
Jan 6th … a new page on the Bath Street/East Street corner
