The Grand Tour
A walk around Victorian Ilkeston, based on the recollections of Adeline Wells (1854-1944).
Edited and extended by Dave Johnson.
The Grand Tour takes us on a walk around Victorian Ilkeston, with Adeline Wells as our guide. In the 1930’s Adeline wrote a series of letters to the Ilkeston Advertiser, describing her life in the town as a child and her account helps us to navigate our route around the area and introduces us to its main characters.
Introduction
But before we begin our walk, we can read a brief outline of Adeline’s letters.
Look what faces us !!
Up the East Side of Bath Street
“In Bath Street (in 1850) one could walk along without any fear of being jostled” but walking up it could still wear you out.
This part of our walk takes us from the bottom of Bath Street to present-day Northgate Street.Up the east side of Bath Street … a quick look at what faces us
The Town Station … the Midland Railway develops, two stations, complaints and dangers, good and bad news, improvements and problems, changes, crime, competition, the future
Town Station … post-Victorian postscript
James Chadwick and family … Jokerman, Rocket Man, Music Man, Family Man
Butcher Twells’ shop and field …. Brussels Terrace, Twells family
William Riley, the unfortunate butcher … bankruptcy, emigration
John Trueman and the Durham Ox … drinking places, Sportsman John, Victualler and brewer John, John in retirement, Arthur Holmes
The candle maker: Moses Mason and family … senior and junior, the candle manufactory, the Mason family
The Local Board
From 1864 until 1887 ‘the officials running the business of the town were embodied in the Ilkeston (Local) Board’.
The Highway Board … Ilkeston in the 1850’s
The Town lighting issue of the 1850’s … Ilkeston in darkness
The Local Board’s formation … Ilkeston in turmoil
The 1869 Election Crisis … Ilkeston in crisis
The Local Board vs The Gas Company … Ilkeston in conflict
Reform, economy, retrenchment and efficiency … Ilkeston in austerity
The Town Hall … Ilkeston in the Italianate style
And what has the Local Board ever done for us?? … Ilkeston illuminates and improves
From Board to Borough … Ilkeston Incorporated
Onwards, upwards and round the corner
This part of the walk continues up Bath Street, past Wilton Place and into Station Road – originally named New Street – which we explore before returning to Bath Street.
The Brunswick Hotel … William and Sarah Jones, domestic abuse … and a drunken Ilkeston
Wilton Place and the Woolliscrofts … the Woolliscroft family
Station Road corner … Joseph Fletcher and the Church Mutual Improvement Society, William Wade, Joseph Haynes
Into New Street (Station Road) … a cul-de-sac
Riley’s Row … George and Samuel Riley and the Cockayne sisters, Levi Webster
Arthur Reuben Johnson … his connection to the Riley family in Station Road, by Phil Henshaw
Leonard Henshaw 1920-1941 … a contribution by Phil Henshaw
The Estate of Samuel Riley (1815-1876)
Henry Carrier … his wife, family, and bankruptcy
Samuel Wood, grocer and baker … wife and children
Enoch Carrier … and off to the U.S.A., Job Whysall
Housing … Thomas Shaw and Pigsty Park, Rev. William Carthy
Buildings in Victorian Ilkeston … 1837-1901
New housing in Station Road … Skeavington, Gregory, Henshaw, Bonsall, Widdowson
More building in Station Road 1881-1901 … new streets on the north side, Moses Fullwood, Walter Beighton, William Ellis
A Station Road Suffragette … Georgina Cooke (nee Shaw)
Beyond North Street … Boiler explosion; Dr Norman’s premises; Benjamin Howard and family; John Allen, railway porter; Rope Walk aka the Ropery
Grove Terrace off Rope Walk… fever and disease, alterations and improvements
Brickmaker Samuel Shaw … his property, his wife and family
Dorothy Haywood and her parents … the Haywood and Richards families
Dorothy Haywood … her maternal grandparents, aunts and uncles … more on the Haywood and Richards families
Up Bath Street to Jack Lee's Yard
We now walk out of Station Road and back into Bath Street, continuing our journey towards the Market Place but pausing at Albion Place/Jack Lee’s Yard. First we must make our way to Chapel Street.
To Chapel Street … William Tarlton, Aldreds, Tilsons and Henshaws, Argyle’s tin shop
Into Chapel Street … Richard and Joseph Rice, Samuel Bostock, Watsons and Woolleys, the Flower Pot, Smiths, Flinders, Richard Blake
The Prince of Wales beerhouse … the Green family
The tale of George Clay Smith … murder, prosecution, defence, verdict and sentence, confession and punishment
And what happened after George? … Aaron and Sarah Aldred, brothers Henry and Edward Smith, uncle Samuel Smith, Emma and Annie Eyre, Ellen Cox, Isaac Aldred, Martha Cockayne, victim Joseph Smith, a second death in Smith’s Yard
Tailor Thomas Wass … tailor and outfitter, later occupants
London House of Kitty Beardsley … John and Catherine Beardsley, and family
The Ilkeston News … the first edition
The Allcock sisters … Maria, Jane and Bessie, brothers Samuel, John, Charles and Isaac
The Queen’s Head Inn … Benjamin Wade, Aaron Aldred, John Trueman
Bostock’s Row and the rowing Bostocks … elevation, aggravation, altercation, intoxication, justification, incarceration, arbitration, provocation
The Baker household … James and Mary, and family, Samuel Smith & Co. Bank
A row of three shops…. David Pressland, Boot and Shoe Shops, Richard Riley, Isaac Gregory, and later, George Andrew
The Alms Houses and Ilkeston’s Charities … Ilkeston’s ten charities, occupants, Blind Billy
Jack Lee’s Yard/Albion Place … John ‘Jack’ Lee, John Hemmingway, Isaac Aldred,
The notorious Noons … John and James (Jack and Jim) Noon and their crime sheets
From Jack Lee's Yard to East Street
The last leg of our climb from Albion Place to East Street brings us into contact with some more notable Ilkestonians.
Fritchley’s farm … William and Ann Fritchley and children
Three empty shops … Joseph Carnill, John Wilson, Samuel Shaw, George Youngman, John Barron, Eliza Hallam
Henry Carrier and Sons … Henry Carrier, his wife and children, Henry Carrier and Sons, lacemakers, lace and stocking making
The Carrier family property … Part 1 (abt 1800-1855) … background, bequests, uncle and nephew Henry Carrier, the lost will, Henry junior, plans of property
The Carrier family property … Part 2 (1856-1860) … the partition, timeline
The Carrier family property … Part 3 (1860-1920) … timeline
Joseph Carrier, draper … his business, family, his assistants
Approaching the Bath Street/East Street corner …. the areas history 1795-1858
John Wombell and the Ilkeston Pioneer .. the birth of the Ilkeston Pioneer, John Wombell and family, sued, on holiday, Maria Beardsley and an illegitimate son, the Doxey School
Wombell vs the Ranters … John Wombell’s explusion from the Primitive Methodist movement
The Ilkeston Pioneer … the first edition, the last
George Small, a terror of evil-doers …. and his family, evil-doers, a police force, the New Inn (later the Borough Arms), the Horsley family
Selina Sudbury and a death in Derby … links to the Sudburys of High Street
East Street
There was no carriage road leading from Bath Street to Cossall. All such traffic went through East Street, Burr Lane, along the narrow road, over the Canal and Erewash.
We now walk down East Street to High Street.Columbine neighbours … George Small, Elijah Higgitt, Sam Lowe and his missus, John Wilson, John Osborne
The Columbine house … Hannah Mellor, a Polling Station, Victorian politics, a Building Society
The Carrier family … Henry and Elizabeth Carrier, their family
Carrier tenants and workers … Henry Harrison, Mark Wheatley Harrison, James Scattergood, Allen Dodd
End of East Street … Thomas Meakin, James Goddard, William Attenborough
The Wine Vaults and neighbours … Bartlams, the Bennetts at the Vaults, Charles Hiram Gregory, for sale, improper houses
The Moresby Disaster 1895… three Ilkeston sailors, Gregory, Barker and Blount
Burr Lane and Albion Place
Here Adeline is describing a time when Burr Lane began at approximately what is now the car park at the rear of the Albion Centre….so the eastern (lower) half of today’s East Street was then part of Burr Lane.
Into Burr Lane … James Warner, Enoch Waters, The Gladstone Inn, Lucy Walls
The Joseph Knighton estate … Knighton family and their premises, the Twitchel, Robert Walker
The Burr Lane Brentnalls … James and Elizabeth, and their children, and other Brentnalls
And Browns … John and Sarah Brown and their children, homeless in Ilkeston
And Balls … Francis and Mary Ball, their children
Albion Place … the Barkers, the Pritchetts
George William Henshaw 1921-1999 … by Rick Henshaw (and his Albion Place and Pritchett connections)
West side cottages … Old Thomas Ball, the Askews, old ‘bachelor’ Burrows, John Gregory, Tom Gregory, James Alexander Barker and family
Property owners in Burr Lane: 1879-1982 … John Ball, Charlesworth Bennett Wood, the Lally family
The Goddards and Ilkeston Brass Band … the Goddard family, the Brass Band
Ruth Veranna Goddard and Henry Beaumont … Ruth Veranna, Henry Hoggard, a family album, at home, family members
Up to High Street … a Harrison, a Sudbury, Anchor Carrier, Goddards, Wheatleys, Spencers
Penty Lee’s Garden … and the Severn family
Dalby House and Dr. Norman … Dalby House, Old Park or Old Hollows, Dr. Norman and family
Dr. Brigham … arrival and assimilation, aneurysm and amputation, and adieu, doctors after Dr. Brigham
The Unitarian Chapel … origins, church squabbles, Mark Whitehouse, a new chapel 1867-69, the Shakspeares
Anchor Row … Hithersay, Sudbury, Turton and Lacey, occupation into the 20th century
St. Mary's Church
The noble church of St. Mary, which is a landmark for the surrounding country, has always been with us and we are proud in being able to call it ‘Our Church’. Our Vicar was Canon Searl Ebsworth.
George Searl Ebsworth and church renewal … need for improvement, plans, church renewal, the ‘new’ church, post-Ilkeston days
James Horsburgh, a dear friend … peculiar remarks, a new organ, church outings, a religious census 1871, departure
John Francis Nash Eyre … arrival, views, danger, mistakes and departure, return, departure again
Edward Muirhead Evans …. controversy, burials, Christmas1888, Edward’s views, church improvements and extensions, and much more
The Church bell-ringers … the first team, the peals, the bells, changes ?, joyous occasions
1882 Religious Census of Ilkeston … who’s the biggest ??
Education in Ilkeston
We shall pause at this point to reflect upon education within the town, the people connected with it, and the schools which provided it, many of them built in the Market Place area.
A helpful map !! … the Market Place area in 1866
The old Market Hall … a brief history
The Church School at the Butter Market … Smedley’s Free School, schoolmasters Cragg, Smith, Ryder, Whitehead, Gadsby, Robinson, Spendlove, Hughes and Frost
The Government and Education: first steps … Government Education Grants, pupil teachers and schoolmasters
The British School in Bath Street … the building, the staff — Milner, Hingle, Walton, Holroyd, Wright Lissett
The old National Schools in the Market Place … girls first, then the boys
Crisis at the British School … closure, reopening, Henry Frederick Daykin, inter-school rivalry
The new National Schools on the Cricket Ground … planning, public meetings, proceed, progress, built at last, Pimlico cricket
St. Mary’s National Schools … in later life … a photo album
Ilkeston’s ASBO … Ilkeston education in 1875, Albert Eubule Evans, Trinity Infants School, more places needed, a School Board, election day 1878
The School Board … Granby Schools planned, more elections, Granby Schools built, a new School Board, and the rest
School Days … a look at some old school photos. Recognise anyone ?
The Sunday School Movement … Robert Raikes, Ilkeston examples
Dame Schools … Ilkeston examples, and men too !!
The Crofter: Hallcroft Boys’ School magazine 1925 … the very first edition, courtesy of Blidworth and District Local History and Heritage Society
Around the Market Place
As we stand in the Market Place we have now reached the pinnacle of the town, and time for another pause.
The Market Place about 1800 … the Burgin-Richardsons
What can we see? … a general view of the area
Aldreds at the Old Harrow Inn … Harrow Inn Yard, the Aldred family (three Josephs), the Harrow Corner issue
Next door neighbours … Walter Allsopp, James and Sarah Elizabeth Oscroft, Edwin Wragg, John Poole, William Sudbury
Thomas Merry and family … the man, wife and children, Parkhyrst, Greenough and Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Childs … and Oddfellows, the Blood Brothers
Jedediah Wigley and the Market Tavern … now and then, Jerry and family, Inn for sale, father John Wigley
The draper’s shop … the West family, William Smith and Early Closing, West’s Yard
The Marshall family … Woolstan Marshall, John Wombell arrives, trouble with William Smith
The King’s Head … William Woodroffe, Charles Turton etc., Woodroffe’s Croft, the Simpsons
The Independent Chapel in Pimlico … timeline 1770-1904, ministers 1856-1878
The Sir John Warren … Mark and Alice Attenborough and their children
Town Hall cottages … Fred Mitchell, Thomas Mather, Samuel Rice, Bonfire night
The East side of Lower Market Place …. the old Anchor Inn and the old King’s Head
George Bunting … who were his neighbours ?, his wife and children
Pat Pollard … Pat and brother George Pollard, apprentice Henry Shepherd, and the Post Office 1841-1851
The doctors … a chronological list
Matthew Hobson and apprentice ….. the Hobson family, Paul Hodgkinson, Liberal Association and Liberal Club
The Volunteer Movement … birth, stillbirth, rebirth, Reuben Harrison
The Market Place … Lower Market Place, Upper Market Place, the Junction and Samuel Taylor
The Town Council 1887-1901
The definitive source for this period of Ilkeston Town Council’s history is “Ilkeston as a Borough” (1974) by Cyril Hargreaves. However there might be something in the following collection of anecdotes which may be of interest, and not covered by Cyril.
So let’s start with the second 1887 Local Election in November. When we were reading about the transfer of local power from the Local Board to the Borough Council in May 1887, we examined the first 1887 election, and left with Mayor Francis Sudbury in “ebullient mood“; he had been sworn in as Ilkeston’s first mayor and had now just been appointed as a county magistrate.
Early Issues 1887-1890 … troublesome councillors, a Public Baths ?, , new acquisitions, water issues, and more trouble !!!
Further Issues 1891-1893 … Park Cemetery, more Mayors, a Public Library ?
Continuing Issues 1894-1897 … health, sewage, bazaars, Medical Officers of Health, a new mayor
Final Issues 1898-1901 … trams, electricity and light, election friction, Joseph Carroll, water, baths and gas
The 1911 Coronation … of King George V and Queen Mary: a Borough Council pamphlet
West Side Stories; Act 1
Starting from the Town Hall, we will now walk along the west side of South Street to Queen Street.
A walk along South Street: Part 1 … a brief summary of the walk to White Lion Square and how itchanged 1798-1881
Quiet South Street … John Mellor, Ilkeston Bank, William Frost
Richard Potts, chemist and druggist…and postmaster … the Post Office, the Potts family
Ball’s Yard … Adolphus Ball, Thomas Ball, and the rest
Daykin’s shops … Richard Daykin and family, a Case of Mistaken Identity, William Armstrong
Intermission; The Daykin family
The Daykin family … prologue, pre-1841, the 1841 census, Samuel and Sarah and family,
Richard Daykin… Richard and Ann (Clemerson)
The children of Richard and Ann Daykin … Eliza Eleanor, Elizabeth and Elizabeth, Anna, Henry Frederick,
Richard Birch Daykin … his life
The daughters of Samuel and Sarah Daykin
Richard Daykin, son of Samuel and Sarah
The daughters of Richard and Ann Daykin
Henry Frederick Daykin, son of Richard and Ann
West Side Stories; Act 2
Mrs. Sam Lowe … Samuel and Mary Lowe and children
William Gregory … William and Martha Gregory and family, David Pressland
The Ilkeston Leader … and the first edition
Sunday School rooms … the Old Wesleyan Sunday Schoolrooms, and the new ones, Preacher Jimmy Dupe, Fiddler Joss
Below Gregory’s orchard … watchmaker William Briggs, shoemaker Abraham Mitchell, dress maker Hannah Horridge
Pleasant Place … William Campbell, John Carrier, Rev. George Haywood, the Kirks
Three new shops … Joseph Bostock, William Thompson and family, Jarvis and Sarah West, the Green family
Into Queen Street
We now leave South Street for a time to look into the Queen Street area.
Francis Sudbury moves in … Francis Sudbury’s patch, William Toplis
John Fish, Parish Clerk … the Oddfellow, Parish Clerk, clock winder, property owner, brother William Fish
Frank Hallam’s Row ... John Flint Walker, George Elsey, Potters, George Wright, Tilsons, John Parkinson Mee, row for sale
William Hawkins … William Hawkins, wife and children, the Hawkins in Ontario
Fred Flint, tailor .. the Flint family
Mr. and Mrs. Cope … Samuel and Ann Cope
Joseph Richardson of Albert Street … his family, Albert Street
Back to South Street
This part of the walk takes in the short journey from Queen Street to the Wesleyan Chapel in South Street.
The old white house … the Sudbury family, George Flint
George Haslam and family … from Mapperley to Euclid House via East Street, Local Board and Town Council, Liberal Club, Chaucer Schools, Bath Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
The Nag’s Head … landlords Joseph Knighton, Charles Turton, William Duro, his family, his will, William Wright Turner
A row of houses…Clark, Smith, Rowley, Daykin, Gregory
Wide Yard and/or West Street … which is it ?
Wide Yard alias West Street … James Platts, the tenants of Wide Yard — John and Mary Meadows, Enoch Flinders, William Hodgett
Mrs. Scattergood … Mary Scattergood, daughters Emma and Mary, William Wade, the Bacons
The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Like her father and other immediate family members, Adeline was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and consequently writes at greater length about this church than any other. It should be remembered that many of the events she describes happened before her birth or when she was a very young child.
The following section discusses nearly all of Ilkeston’s pre-Victorian and Victorian Wesleyan Methodist Chapels, and their associated chapels, with the exception of the Bath Street Wesleyan Chapels built on the site of Samuel Fletcher’s factory and which you can find later as we walk down the west side of Bath Street.John Wesley … his influence, Mary Barritt, the Ilkeston Circuit
The Old Cricket Ground Chapel … its founding
The Fly Leaves … and the Wesleyan arguement
The South Street Chapel … a new chapel
The Wesleyan split … Reformers, the Rev. Hume, dwindling numbers, United Methodist Free Churches
The Old Wesleyans and a new chapel … small numbers, the Market Street chapel
The Methodist New Connexion … Stamford Street chapel
The ministers at the South Street chapel … Dr. Benjamin Gregory, George Haywood and John Baron, a new organ
To the Toll Bar
We are standing looking at the old Baptist Chapel which is on the opposite side of South Street and will now take a walk down towards White Lion Square.
James Hithersay … and his family
Henry Tomlinson … and his extended family
Thomas Tomlinson … Thomas and Ann and children
Widow Brown … Julia Emma Brown later Wright formerly Hawley
Joseph Shaw, butcher … a fishing match
William Sanders … William I, II, and III, a bit of the Wheeldons
Derby Road
Down one side of the road to Straw’s Bridge and then up the other.
The Wheeldon family … William Wheeldon, Amos and Sarah and family
Chain Row … who were Evans, Baker, Potter ?, an errant pigeon
Kester Harrison’s house … Christopher Harrison, lace workers Anthony, Beniston, Kirk and White families
The Benistons in Ilkeston … and beyond … William and Eliza and children and grandchildren
Down the road … Harrisons, Straws
The Hollis household … James and Betsey, the 1870’s, Ann Hayes and Thomas Leivers
Around Oakwell Fields … the Ilkeston Colliery Company Ltd., Thomas Potter, Nahum and Betsy Ironmonger, William Tunnicliffe senior or junior
Oakwell Farm … Isaac Attenborough, Tilkestune’s articles in the Advertiser of 1933, Sudburys
Belper Street … Solomon Robinson, Joseph Cope, James Butt, the Miners’ Arms
The Three Horse Shoes … landlord John Harvey
End of the road … Moons and Noons
Stanton Road
Stanton Road was very quiet.
A very quiet road … Jemmy Goddard
Job Derbyshire … Patrick and Sarah, Job Nightingale Simpson Derbyshire, his family, the curious case of Sarah Simpson
The Derbyshire Estate in Stanton Road … a property document history from 1879 – 1982
Old Gallimore … William and son Thomas
Ilkeston General Cemetery … churchyards, burial grounds and cemeteries, Samuel Potter’s funeral 1860, a strange spectacle 1873, changes at St. Mary’s, cemetery neglect
Don’t believe everything you read … Part 1 … on the right
Don’t believe everything you read … Part 2 … the northern edge
Don’t believe everything you read … Part 3 … the southern half
The Wilkinsons of Little Hallam … Isaac and Elizabeth, the Bull’s Head Inn
Carrier mysteries … George Carrier alias Daykin, the Bryan family
Regent and Oxford Streets … Joseph Richardson, William Marshall, Catholic Priest and Church, the Chester family
The Havelock Inn and the Fletchers … Matthew and sons, and daughter, landlords
Cartwrights, Smiths and Burrows … Richard and Catherine Cartwright and family, Samuel Smith and two wives, Isaac and Mary Burrows
The Straws of Stanton Road … Phillip and Sarah, James and Mary, William and Catherine, Thomas and Eliza
Nottingham Road part 1
From Stanton Road we will walk down the west side of Nottingham Road to the Hunger Hill area
At the top … Joseph Harrison and lodging houses, blind Joseph England, the Raynes family
The musical Wardles … James and Martha, children Sarah Ann, Joseph and John Thomas
Further down … the Warrens, James Straw, more houses and cottages, the Copes
The Tathams … father Benjamin, Edmund, Amos, and others
Allen Tatham and the bankruptcy of Tatham & Co … and a few puzzles
The Ilkeston Mechanics’ Institute … its history, town football
Two beerhouses … the Lowe family and the Needlemakers’ Arms, the Flinders family and the White Cow
A touch of Frost at Hunger Hill
Most of the content of this section is the work of Alan Smith
A death at Hunger Hill … Thomas Frost
The family of Thomas and Mary Frost … children
Little Hallam … a map 1880
The Frosts on the 1841 & 1851 census .. and another map
The Frosts on the 1861 & 1871 census … and yet another map
Gilbert Place … then and now
The death of Thomas Frost … back to Thomas
William Frost; the line continues … and a family photo
William Frost on the census … William and Sarah Ann and children
Sarah Ann Bednall … William’s first wife
Rachel Bircumshaw … William’s second wife
William and Rachel Frost before 1881 … 1861-1881 and Sowbrook Lane
William and Rachel Frost after 1881 … more children, Low’s Lane
In affectionate remembrance … a grave
Thomas Frost … the prequel … in Staffordshire
An extra touch of Frost … Eli and Mary Ann Frost, the Burrows family
Nottingham Road part 2
We now walk on from Hunger Hill to Gallows Inn fields and then back up the east side of Nottingham Road.
The Hooley family … Esau and Ann and relatives
Thomas Attenborough … cattle dealer, cricketer, daughter Alice
The Horse and Groom Inn … landlords Lowe, Edwin Riley, William Attenborough, Mr Lupton, William Whitehead, Thomas Attenborough Beardsley and others, Gallow’s Inn Close and Shipstone Street
On the east side … the Flints, Ted Tatham, the Horsley house, the Rose family, the Richards, Gilbert Bailey in the last house
White Lion Square and streets off
We shall now walk around White Lion Square and take brief detours into Park Road, Market and Extension Streets.
The White Lion Inn … Bartholomew Wilson, Robert Marshall
Batholomew Wilson … a section on Bartholomew and his family, compiled by Jim Morse
The will of Bartolomew’s Wilson
Wheatley’s Yard … Thomas and Maria Wheatley, and children
James Gallimore … from Wirksworth, Thomas Goddard
The Travellers’ Rest … the Bell family, more Irish, Outram’s buildings
John Wakefield and Wakefield’s Yard … personal recollections, Widow Hawley
The noisy Irish … Irish ruptions 1853, 1856, 1857; Michael O’Day; Father O’Neill, 1867 Christmas; Martin Scully; Kelly’s lodging house; an Irish mob 1881; Walter Lally; Jubilee celebrations 1887 and Thomas Quinn
Neighbours Hithersay, Brand and Raynes … James Hithersay, Henry Brand, Elizabeth Raynes
Park Road … Samuel Rice again
The Walker family of Park Road … Samuel and Mary, from Ilkeston to Iowa, and back to Park Road
Market and Extension Streets … Extension Street and Brights Terrace, residents, Norman Straw, the Eatons, more residents
Hubert Henri Sugg … the solicitor and his celebrated sons
The Anchor Inn … Elijah Brentnall, John Goddard, other landlords
East side of South Street
Not only will we take in this side of South Street, from White Lion Square to the Market Place, but also several of the yards and walkways off that street.
A walk along South Street: Part 2 … we start this section with a brief summary of the walk along South Street
William Campbell and the Toll Bar … local roads, Turnpike Trust, toll disputes, demise, William Campbell and family
Toll Bar corner … saddler Ralph Shaw, the Skevingtons
House of York … Joseph jun., Charles York, Lucy York, Henry York, David York
Robey’s Yard … father John jun., John Bower Robey
Murder in America … Jane Carline Bower and Robert Morley
The burial grounds of the Old Baptist Chapel … a lost graveyard, Baptist burials
The Meadows family of Baptist Chapel Yard … a puzzle solved
The Baptist chapel … a potted history 1766 — about 1900, Charles Frederick Aked
William Felkin (1795-1874)
The Prince of Wales … William Thompson, Edwin and Mary Ann Godber, Trueman’s Court
John Moss … John and Emma, John and Mary
Gladstone Street to Weaver Row…. destitution in the street, Samuel Paling, Amos and Elizabeth Burrows, Flint Hawley and family, the Finches, the Raynes family
Amos and Sarah Beardsley … a family photo collection, John and Sarah Birch and family
The Birch family (by John Daykin) … Samuel and Thomasine Birch and family
Hollingworth family history by Simon Hollingworth
Hollingworth graves at Dale Abbey
Weaver Row … Weaver Pool, Joseph Mason, George Toplis, Aldreds, Harrisons and Tilsons, Mary Potts, William Fox
Ilkeston’s water supply … Parish Pump, Waterworks,
Disease in the town … Buchanan Report, street scents and disease, Blaxall Report, Cottage Hospital, vaccination, miasma, a Jubilee legacy ?
The Sudburys … Francis and Ann Sudbury, and children
Warner’s Yard … Eliza Birch, Miss Fritchley, the Lanes, Isaac Warner
The Cricket Ground and chapel … the chapel, the cricket ground, cricket and clubs, parades, fetes and galas, a new ground
Burgin’s Yard and Row … the Toplis family, Eliza Farmer, Eliza Green late Cresswell formerly Skevington, Fretwell family, Holland family, Bob Burgin, the Butt family, William Hunt
Market Place Summary 1866
Bath Street - west side, south end
We are now walking from the Old Harrow Inn, down Bath Street, on the left hand side until we reach the Spring Cottage beerhouse.
The top end … William Rose, James Turton, William Fritchley
Solomon Beardsley, Bath Street baker … Solomon, two wives and ten children, thefts, animal-lover, business woes, other Solomons
Mrs. Joseph Scattergood … Joseph and Elizabeth Scattergood and family
Into White’s Yard … Ruth Lowe/White/Revill/Haslam, Stephen Rose, Joseph Aldred, Betty Carrier, Mary Carrier and Milko Jack Foster, White’s Yard or Whitt’s Yard ?
To Mount Street … Charles Chadwick, Elijah Higgett, Joseph Hallam , John McKenna and George Purcell.
George William Purcell … senior and junior
The Higgetts … by John Daykin
Jonty Trot of Mount Street ... friends and enemies, his journeys, a fight !!, a new suit, brother Yellow Tom, Jonty Dido, Billy Deverill
Jonty’s neighbours … the Fox family, Tommy Hinds
Club Row … occupants too numerous to list here
Some Hallam family history … from Mike Hallam
Mrs. Burgin’s butcher’s shop … Widow Sarah (nee Marshall) and her children
The Paxton family .. John Paxton, cricketer, beer seller and bailiff, Herbert Green alias Bruzzer, William Thorpe, the Paxton children
Mrs. Boy’s Girls’ school … Mrs Eleanor Broughey later Brett
Two bankrupt tradesmen … John Norton Hickman, Thomas Small, George Barker, the Wood brothers
William Henshaw, fishmonger … senior and junior
Clarkson, Tooth and Pickburn … Simon Clarkson, chemist; George Tooth, currier; Eliezer Pickburn, tin-man; and Thomas Garrett; ps David Pressland
Short-term residents ... at Mount Row, Thomas Machin, Ebenezer Pulcifer, John Keate Tapley, Joseph Rice
Fletcher’s factory and the Wesleyan Church … and the Beardsley family at the Spring Cottage Inn
The Spring Cottage beerhouse and the Beardsleys … Mark Beardsley, marks 1, 2, and 3.
Bath Street - west side, north end
This part of the west side of Bath Street takes in the section from Spring Lane to the bottom of the road. We start at the Primitive Methodist Chapel.
The Primitive Methodist chapel … and Daykins Row, Salvation Army
The Salvation Army at Ilkeston … 1880-1901
The New Inn at Providence Place … and its owners and landlords
Down to Adcock’s Yard … Mary Calladine, Henry Kelly, the Campbells and Sowrays, Bill Bailey, Charles Chadwick and family, a Harrison house, Straw school, Thomas Riley
Adcock’s Yard … the Adcock family, William Bonsall, Sydney Adcock and violent sports
The Potter family … father James, sons and daughters, grandchildren, forbidden marriages
The Poplar Inn .. the Ebbern family, Samuel Robinson, Potter’s stackyard
Thomas Ebbern … and Cromwell Buildings in Bath Street
Ebbern and Paling families … a family album linking Ebberns, Palings, Robinsons, Maltbys, and a Sudbury !! It has 9 pages, so beware !!
Samuel Whitehead, hero of Waterloo … soldier and druggist, son William, brother Thomas, old Mrs. Straw
Ilkeston as a spa … birth of the baths, growth, benefits, decline, Bath House Bostocks
The Rutland Arms ... Thomas Hives, brothers and sisters, 1834, Vauxhall Gardens, Scandal, Thomas the trader, family
The Manor House … the Cockers and Taylors, builder Frederick Shaw and family, the Theatre Royal and Opera House
Going beyond Bath Street
We finally look at some of the residents of the Heanor and Awsworth Roads area.
The Mundy Arms .. the Clay and Wilkinson families, butcher William Mellor
Drinking: people, places, rules, regulations … a summary of one of the Victorian town’s main pastimes (for some)
Up Heanor Road .. Bailey’s factory, Bradley’s inn, Cotmanhay Lodge
Workhouse Hill … Wheatley Straw, the Baileys, Thomas Bramley, the Workhouse Widows, Back Lane
Holy Trinity Mission … founding, a new church needed … and begun
Starvation on Ilkeston Common 1863 … a few technical terms, the Trueman family, Victorian inquests
The Howe family … with a few Savages and Sheldons, Henshaws and Hensons for good measure … and a Beardsley !!
Ebenezer Chapel … old and new chapels, the opening 1853, the Mutual Improvement Society, 1873; Bleak Cotmanhay
Richard Evans … his pottery, his employees, his home, his brothers George and John
The Dawson Family at Canal Side … in several parts
Old Ilson Relics
Old Ilson Relics … items from the Andrew Knighton collection
Old Ilson Quiz
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 1
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 2
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 3
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 4
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 5
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 6
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 7
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 8
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 9
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 10
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 11
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 12
Old Ilson Quiz … Part 13
Old Ilson Blog by Insider
This is a regular blog of events — some significant, many mundane — written by our own restless native, ‘Insider’, who knows everything there is to know about Ilkeston life. At least that is what he claims, to anyone who will listen — though most listeners tend to fall asleep as he talks.
The blog begins on New Year’s Day of 1851.
Sources, references, abbreviations, further information and reading, and all that sort of stuff
