by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Ilkeston’s Industries
Stanton Gate Bomb Plant Within months of the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in 1939 it became apparent to the British Government’s Ministry of Supply, that the available steel plants and foundries already in existence would be unable to meet the huge demand for...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Ilkeston’s Industries
The Stanton Ironworks at New Stanton, south of Ilkeston was once the town’s largest manufacturing concern and consequently its biggest employer. The Stanton and Staveley group was later part of the Tubes Division of British Steel Corporation. At its height, the...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Ilkeston’s Industries
Ilkeston lies almost at the southern end of the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coal field, with the deepest seams finally outcropping or bassetting out in the neighbouring parishes of Kirk Hallam and Stanton by Dale. Coals and probably ironstone also had been mined on...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Ilkeston’s Archaeology
Introduction The site as it appeared in early 2001. Overgrown and covered with a huge pile of garden rubbish. This view was taken looking west toward the wall which surrounds the property and divides the church yard from the grounds of the former vicarage. Although...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 17, 2023 | Ilkeston’s Archaeology
Ilkeston: Roman coin site at Cotmanhay SK469437 A Roman bronze coin of Gratian (367-383 AD) was found by Mr Birch in a mole hill on rough ground alongside the canal and River Erewash off Sleaford Way, Cotmanhay. The coin is on display at the Erewash Museum. Ilkeston:...
