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

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.

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The Victorian Era ends

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What’s going on ??

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One of the Brown family of Burr Lane … but which one ? (Pam Bates archive)

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

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The photo above can be found in Trueman and Marston’s History of Ilkeston. It is labelled as “A bit of old Ilkeston, in Bath Street“. Any idea what it was called … or where it was ? (Be careful !! — don’t make the same mistake as the census enumerator Arthur Perriam made in 1881)

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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.

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Burr Lane … but perhaps not as you know it

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Can you connect the Plan below with the Photo above ? (Jim Beardsley Collection) 

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Any contributions and comments are all very welcome.
If you have any questions about your own Ilkeston research please put them forward.