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 |
2 - More Flats |
3 - Carpet Sales room |
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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? |
4 - Children's Day Nursery |
5 - Cafe Bar |
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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