Curiosities

An Ilkeston man in the American Civil War

An Ilkeston man in the American Civil War

(A longer read) The complicated life of George Newman George Newman was born in Northamptonshire in September 1834. His father John was a gamekeeper and his mother a dressmaker. The 1851 census...

Who was St John Houghton?

Who was St John Houghton?

Beauvale Priory, near Eastwood, achieved fame when its one-time Prior, John Houghton, became the first English Catholic Martyr. Born in Essex in 1487, he was educated at Cambridge, where he took a...

Goodbye, Bessy Ling

Goodbye, Bessy Ling

Good-bye, Bessy Ling, Good-bye  (Click red link to download audio file) By Peter Cave This is a surprise: sheet music written and published in Ilkeston. The melody and arrangement was by Amos...

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