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by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
Our plaque on his former home at ‘Ferns Hollow’ on Station Road, Ilkeston marks the birthplace of a famous son of Ilkeston, Lieutenant Colonel Brian Duncan Shaw MM BSc PhD DSC (Hon). A renowned marksman and soldier, he later became a lecturer at a...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
On 31st January 1916 a Zeppelin flew over the East Midlands passing over Ilkeston and the Stanton Iron Works and dropping bombs on the way, including at Bennerley Viaduct. Our plaque, placed by the Society on the north wall of the former St Bartholemew’s Church in...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
by Ann Featherstone and Beverley Kilby A look at some of the events, people and things that have shaped the Ilkeston we know today, written to celebrate 50 years of the Ilkeston and District Local History Society. Copies are available at just £10 (£13.50 by...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
The Society’s commemorative plaque to the town’s almost forgotten son is at 61 South Street — Ogden’s the Butcher. Harry Stanley Hawley, known as Stanley, was born on South Street and became an internationally known pianist and composer. His father was a...
by hello@ctrlaltdesign.uk | Dec 15, 2023 | News
A second Society plaque now adorns the walls of the Sir John Warren in the Market Place commemorating the Ilkeston Bicycle Club and the town’s champion rider, Fred Fletcher. Fred was born over his father’s chemist shop at 69 Bath Street on 8 August 1869....
