Having just briefly examined Ilkeston’s Victorian housing, I have started a list of buildings (1837-1901), most of which feature somewhere on the site, and I hope to add to this occasionally.
1846 … the Gas Works in Rutland Street
1848 … Christ Church, Cotmanhay in Church Street
1852 … Primitive Methodist Chapel in Bath Street
1852 … Christ Church, Cotmanhay, Vicarage in Vicarage Street
1857/8 … Baptist Chapel in Queen Street
1859 … Anchor Inn in Market Street
1859 … Durham Ox Inn in Durham Street
1862 … Catholic Church and schoolroom in Regent Street/Nottingham Road
1866 … Town Hall in the Market Place
1867 … United Methodist Church in Cotmanhay Road
1869 … Unitarian Chapel in High Street
1869 … Kensington Mission Station in Nottingham Road
1873 … Wesleyan Chapel in Bath Street
1875 … St. Mary’s National Schools in Hallcroft Road
1875 … Holy Trinity School in Factory Lane
1880 … Cantelupe House in Market Street
1882 … Station Terrace at 32-36 Station Road
1882 … New Baptist Chapel in Norman Street
1883 … Granby Board Schools on Heanor Road
1883 … Primitive Methodist Sunday School in Little Hallam Lane
1883/4 … Holy Trinity Church in Granby Street
1883/4 … Ilkeston Institute in Market Street
1884 … Stanley Villa at 11 Burr Lane
1885 … Hillside House in Nottingham Road
1885 … Rutland Villas in Rutland Street
1886 … Fletcher’s lace factory in Wood Street
1888 … Bourne Cottages and Primitive Methodist Schools in Wilmot Street
1888 … Recreation Ground in Pimlico
1889 … Methodist New Connexion Chapel in Stamford Street
1890 … Victoria Villas in Lord Haddon Road
1890 … Ilkeston Mission Chapel in Chapel Street
1892 … Park Cemetery in Park Avenue
1892 … Hope Villas in Park Drive
1892 … Whittington Villas in Gregory Street
1893 … Lawn Villas in St Mary Street
1893 … The Ferns and Wilton Place Villas in Wilton Place
1893 … St. John’s Church in Nottingham Road
1893 … Holy Trinity Vicarage in Cotmanhay Road
1893 … Wesleyan Chapel in Station Road
1894 … Anns Villas in Stanton Road
1895 … Wesleyan Chapel on Corporation Street
1895 … St. Bartholomew’s Church in Hallam Fields
1895 … New Theatre Royal and Opera House in Lord Haddon Road
1896 … Burnside in Burns Street
1896 … Trueman Villas on Stanley Street
1896 … Rutland Buildings, Vernon Buildings and Haddon Buildings in Charlotte Street
1896 … Dorothy Villas in Charlotte Street
1897 … Primitive Methodist Chapel on Little Hallam Lane
1897 … Jubilee Villas in Station Road
1898 … Rutland Chambers in Lord Haddon Road
1898 … Vernon House on Lord Haddon Road
1898 … Norman Villa in Bright Street
1899 … the Red House on Wharncliffe Road
1899 … the Central Hall on Pelham Street
1900 … Lenton House in Drummond Road
1900 … Cromwell Buildings in Bath Street
1901 … Edmont and Edmont Villas in Burns Street
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We cn now walk on, to examine just one of the streets mentioned in this housing section … see if you can work out which one it is.