Stanton By Dale -
Part 8 - Quarry Hill Road
w/e 09 November
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.
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In the previous
seven parts we have looked at most of the main streets in the
village and to conclude our monthly series, our walk takes us
from the junction of Main Road and School Lane into Quarry Hill.
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A couple of
hundred yards down Quarry Hill, a grassy recess bounded by a
stone wall and guarded by two wooden stakes, is what remains
of the old village pound for stray animals.
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The pound overlooks
one of the old stone quarries from which the road derives its
name and which provided walling and building material used in
the village. Stone from here was also used in the locks on the
former Nutbrook Canal.
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We are now almost at the end
of the village and right next to the village pound is the Erewash
Valley Golf Club. Despite the "Private Property" sign,
a footpath leads across the course, under the motorway and on
into Sandiacre.
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On the opposite side of
the road stand three pairs of "Garden City" type semi-detached
properties. These were designed by Ilkeston architect H.Tatham
Sudbury who was responsible for many buildings in and around
Ilkeston. These houses are known as "Foremen's Row".
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Long before the demise of Stanton
Ironworks, the properties were built to house the company's foremen.
Although the industrial landscape in the valley below has changed
considerably over the years, the foremen would have had a good
view of their workplace from their homes as this picture taken
earlier this year shows. It gives an entirely new meaning to
the phrase "Working From Home"! As we return up Quarry
Hill towards the village centre, there is a footpath by the side
of the last (or first) of the properties in Foremen's Row that
offers a shortcut to the works (inset) but if we follow it and
turn left, it will take us back to our starting point near St
Michael's Church.
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