The Hallam Fields Industrial Trail - Part 2 - Hallam Fields Road
w/e 21 August 2005
All this week's pictures were taken with a Kodak DX6490

In Part 2, we set off from The Stute along Hallam Fields Road.

Leaving the sports ground at The Stute and heading off along Hallam Fields Road towards St Bartholomew's Church, the view is now dominated by the industrial units on the left that date from the 1950s onwards. On the right however are three blocks of eight cottages from almost one hundred years earlier. Collectively these twenty four cottages are known as North View and although the only view now is to the industrial units opposite, this was not always the case. The cottages were erected in 1868 to house the workers of Stanton Ironworks. Adjacent to The Stute is number 24 (on the right in the picture above and also seen in the small picture on the left). This became a farmhouse whilst at one end of the middle block, number 9 (right), became the place where the first worshippers met.

This little community in the early days was also served by a grocer's shop and post office in numbers 3 and 4.

Around the corner in Crompton Street were two more general shops, one containing a chip shop, and similar cottages to those on North View were built here on both sides of the road as more Stanton workers moved into the area in the 1870s. These have now all been demolished and Crompton Street has been renamed Crompton Road but we shall see more of this area later as it will form part of our return route to The Stute.

Our outward route is to continue along Hallam Fields Road but the photo above was taken from just inside Crompton Road to show St Bartholomew's Church. The main body of the church was built in 1895 to a design featuring red brick with stone dressings by architect P. H. Currey (or Curry) of Derby. It was built to accommodate a congregation of 450 people by H. V. Ireson of Ilkeston, the cost of construction being met by the Crompton family and the Stanton Ironworks Company. The foundation stone was laid by George Crompton, chairman of the company on August 24th 1895, the Crompton family being owners of the company from 1852 until nationalisation in 1948. In 1916 the east window (left) and the parish room were destroyed during a First World War Zeppelin raid on January 31st. The font (right) now stands on a plinth in an overgrown forecourt.

The clock tower (a Grade 2 listed building) with four bells and a saddle backed roof was not added to the church until 1905. Six years later four more bells were added along with a chiming mechanism. The 1916 raid resulted in the deaths of two men when 22 bombs were dropped around the ironworks but the parish room was rebuilt within six months by the Stanton company. The last service in St Bartholomew's was held on New Year's Eve 1969 and closer inspection of these photos will reveal the current dilapidated state of the church. The building is up for sale and once again in desperate need of some TLC. The junction of Hallam Fields Road and Crompton Street (left) was the terminus of the town's tram (later trolley bus) service. The tramway was opened by the Borough Council in 1903, taken over by the Notts and Derby Tramways Company in 1916 and closed in 1931 when it was replaced by trolley buses until 1953. The crew room, part of the terminus buildings, stood opposite the east end of the church.

Before we continue along Hallam Fields Road, we'll break off to view another church not far away. This is St John's on Nottingham Road seen here from the bottom of Cavendish Road. Even to the casual observer similarities in the style and outward appearance between this building and St Bartholomew's should be apparent so it should come as no surprise to learn that St John's too was designed by Mr Currey of Derby. Back to Part 1  Hallam Fields Index  Forward to Part 3

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