March 31st … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
March 30th … a musical prize for John Simpson Derbyshire, late of Stanton Road
March 26th … a free library for Ilkeston ? Town Council decides
March 24th … the Barker estate in North Street
March 14th … fracas at the Poplar Music Hall
March 13th … St. Mary’s becomes a “free and open church“
March 7th … 1889: George Bertram Marples pays for a night out in Nottingham
March 4th … 1889: the fire brigade faces a dilemma
March 2nd … a new page on the Daykin famliy of Daykin’s Row off Bath Street, thanks to the information supplied by Simon Dodds
February 28th … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
February 19th … 1888: the Salvation Army funeral of Polly Potts
February 18th … another new page on Old Ilkeston Streets, using Jim Beardsley‘s document archive
February 11th … the birth of Vernon Street
February 6th … a new page on Old Ilkeston Streets, using Jim Beardsley‘s document archive
January 31st … an updated Supplementary index for all recent additions
January 21st … the sad death of John Ralph Melland Thompson junior (1929) of 1 Barker Gate
January 20th … more detail on the Hobson and Hodgkinson families of the Market Place
January 19th … some new photos of the Hodgkinson family thanks to Jeremy Hodgkinson
January 14th … more detail on the Station Road cottage hospital
January 12th … a new page on Ilkeston’s sewerage system
January 5th … 1886: the Duke of Rutland and his Common tenants
January 4th … 1886; Solomon Beardsley and his miller cross swords in court
January 3rd … the marital problems of the builder brothers Thomas and William Manners
January 2nd … loan problems for Bath Street grocer Amos Beardsley — too trusting or naive or just unlucky ?
January 1st … the mysterious marriage of William Warner
