Adeline’s articles and the Columbine family history

Adeline contributed several articles for publication in the Ilkeston Advertiser. They are reproduced here in the chronological order of their publication.

• The articles

  Memories of old Ilkeston

  Ilkeston schooling

  Some recollections of bygone Ilkeston

  A pen picture of South Street in the late fifties

  The birth of  a street

  A tribute to an old acquaintance

• Ilkeston and its inhabitants in the fifties of the last century

  A series of 17 letters. Each one appears separately on the site.

  Letter 1  Ilkeston’s water supply, housing, lighting, main buildings

  Letter 2   The lace industry

  Letter 3  Carriers, Tathams, Hallam and Hawkins; places of worship

  Letter 4  Places of worship, schools

  Letter 5  Tradespeople on the east side of Bath Street

  Letter 6  Tradespeople on the west side of Bath Street and in the Market Place

  Letter 7  Tradespeople in the Market Place and East Street

  Letter 8  Tradespeople in South Street

  Letter 9  Tradespeople in South Street

  Letter 10  Tradespeople in South Street

  Letter 11  Tradespeople in Stanton Road and White Lion Square

  Letter 12  Ilkeston’s inns

  Letter 13  Ilkeston’s inns

  Letter 14  Doctors, clergy, inhabitants of Bath Street, east side

  Letter 15  Inhabitants of Bath Street, Chapel Street, New Street

  Letter 16  Inhabitants of East Street, Burr Lane, Albion Place, New Street, Market Place, South Street

  Letter 17  Inhabitants of Derby Road, Stanton Road, White Lion Square, Park Road, Market Street and Nottingham Road

• The Columbine family history

  This has been rearranged (March 9th 2020) and some primary evidence of the family has been added.

  1    The Columbine parents and grandparents

  2     Adeline Wells

  3    The Columbine children

  4    The Columbine family in 1912