Stanton By Dale -
Part 6 - Main Street & School Lane
w/e 07 September
2003
For the information about
Stanton By Dale I am indebted to my wife Sandra who conducted
much of the research, the staff at Ilkeston Library for help
with archived material and the Erewash Groundwork Trust who provided
an excellent leaflet packed with information.
We resume our
wanderings around the village in Main Street but a glance down
Stanhope Street shows not only the welcome mat out (inset) but
also a couple of old iron bootscrapers. Another bootscraper of
a more ornate design can also be seen at 29 Main Street.
Motorists speeding
through the village would surely miss details like bootscrapers
and many would also miss pleasant and picturesque views like
this between the cottages that front on to the main road.
On the opposite
side of the road, buildings of the eighteenth century Hall Farm,
like those of Manor Farm in Dale Road, have been converted to
provide residential accommodation.
The road now swings to the right
and becomes School Lane. We shall return to this point to explore
Quarry Road on the left later but first we'll follow School Lane
to the end of the village.
And at the end of the
village in a hollow under the boughs of a horse chestnut tree
is a pond that I once saw referred to on an old map as Stanton
Lake. Hardly big enough to be a lake but the inset taken from
a similar position almost 3 years ago (November 2000) following
heavy rains shows the water level as high as as I ever seen it
and extending into the field beyond the surrounding fence.
The horse chestnut tree was
laden with conkers and nearby a bountiful harvest of
damsons was overflowing from someone's garden into the hedgerow
- sure signs of the changing season.
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other pages from this series about Stanton By Dale.
