The Erewash Museum is a museum in the town of Ilkeston, Erewash, in Derbyshire, England. The building that houses the museum is named the Dalby House after one of the families who inhabited it, and has served as a school and a private dwelling.
Ilkeston's former Ritz Cinema on South Street is a Grade II listed building, constructed in the late 1930s by Reginald Cooper of Nottingham. It was established in 1938, showcasing a typical architectural style of that era.
Constructed in 1877, the viaduct was erected by the Great Northern Railway to support its Derbyshire and Staffordshire extension across the River Erewash valley.
The Church institute was designed by Henry James Kilford who was the Surveyor to the Local Board and later to the Borough Council
Ilkeston’s first purpose-built cinema by James Parsons and Sons of Bulwell (1913), believed to be the second oldest remaining purpose-built cinema in the country. The style incorporates features of Edwardian, classical and art nouveau designs.
In the early 1990s, members of the Ilkeston and District Local History Society became aware of the deteriorating state of the Cemetery on Stanton Road, Ilkeston.
The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has stood on its present site since the mid 12th century and until 1848 served the whole town of Ilkeston. Since 1848 three new parishes were formed to serve the spiritual needs of the rapidly expanding town.
Park Cemetery is the town’s municipal cemetery, and is owned and run by Erewash Borough Council.
Ilkeston Town Station, not long after re-opening in 1879. Situated at the bottom of Bath Street, Ilkeston Town Station stood roughly where the large traffic island now stands.
A red brick Italianate style building of 1867-8 by R C Sutton of Nottingham
The library was built in 1904 to an Edwardian ‘Free Style’ (Baroque) design by Hunter and Woodhouse of Belper.
Impressive wrought iron lattice work viaduct circa 1879. Almost 500 yards (460 metres) long,
Ilkeston's civic War Memorial takes the form of a 'cenotaph' or empty tomb. Names were requested by public appeal, so not every casualty appears here.
Built in 1906 and designed by Ilkeston Borough Engineer H J Kilford. The front has Jacobean design influences and is of pressed red brick with Rowsley Stone dressings. The central entrance block is entirely of stone with an Oriel window above which there is a stone carving of the former Borough coat-of-arms. The police station also incorporated cells, an exercise yard and houses for the Superintendent and Inspector.
The Erewash Museum is a museum in the town of Ilkeston, Erewash, in Derbyshire, England. The building that houses the museum is named the Dalby House after one of the families who inhabited it, and has served as a school and a private dwelling.
