Ilkeston - What's The Link?
w/e 09 January 2005
All this week's pictures were taken
with a Kodak DX6490
1 - Entrance To Flats
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2 - More Flats
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3 - Carpet Salesroom
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These thumbnail pictures show the entrances to six
buildings scattered about Ilkeston. There are two blocks of flats,
a carpet sales room, a day nursery and two pubs but besides these
pictures all showing the main entrances, can you guess what else
forms a common link between the buildings?
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4 - Children's Day Nursery
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5 - Cafe Bar
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6 - Public House
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1 - This first building contains flats and stands behind the
Scala Cinema on Burns Street. We passed this one previously in
Stage 19 of the Town Walk.
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2 - The second building on Cotmanhay Road is also flats but the
road name plate on the left is a clue to the link.
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3 - Regent Carpets sell their wares from this building on Stamford
Street.
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4 - On Park Road, a children's day nursery that goes by the name
of the Toddler's University, occupies a building that was previously
used as a pottery warehouse.
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5 - A fresh coat of paint and a sign proclaiming "Under
New Management" grace the front of this building on South
Street and it is another that we saw previously in Stage 11 of the Town Walk. You may have guessed
from the architecture of the previous five that all the buildings
were formerly churches or chapels and whilst that is true for
those five, the link to the sixth building below is not so apparent.
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6 - This is neither a church nor a chapel but is the Needlemakers'
Arms on Kensington Street, off Nottingham Road. Many years ago
in 1864 in fact, two gentlemen, William Sudbury and Richard P
Howard, whilst out for a Sunday morning walk noticed a number
of dirty and ragged children in the area of Kensington. They
suggested the formation of a Sunday School which was started
in one of the cottages that stood nearby but it became so popular
that it rapidly expanded into a second cottage before taking
up residence in a room in the Needlemakers' Arms. Even this became
too small and the middle room of a factory was used before the
Sunday School moved into the newly built premises of the Kensington
Mission Church in 1869.
The correct answer then to this little puzzle is that although
not all formerly churches, all the buildings have been used as
places of worship. They were: 1 - The Independent Chapel (forerunner
of the Congregational Church); 2 - The Wesley Methodist Chapel;
3 - Stamford Street Methodist Chapel; 4 - St Mary's ( or Larklands)
Mission and 5 - The Baptist Chapel.
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