16th Ilkeston Scouts come out on top
Rampage is an annual County competition that has been running since 1992 at Drum Hill Scout Camp. Twenty-four teams of six Scouts compete over eight different challenges and activities including climbing/abseiling, map reading, air rifle shooting, fire lighting, a blind fold challenge, a mental challenge, grass skis and a treasure hunt to score points. This year’s competition was won by the
team from the 16th Ilkeston (St. John’s) Scout Group. The team comprised of John Wildey, Jack Barker, Oscar Blair, Robson Hazard, Josh Lebeter and JoeAtkins. The photograph shows the lads with their trophy after prentation by Sir Richard Fitzherbert, County President, and also in the picture is James Stafford, the County Commissioner.
shop’ and presumably sold loose food for cats and other pets. I can’t remember it being open; only as a closed down shop. Woolworths, Farrands, Maypole and Meadow were nearby. Castledines had a shop at the bottom of Heanor Road and there was MitchOn hearing a familiar noise on TV, it took ells second hand shop on Station Road. me back to the Co-op of my youth when the Those days there were plenty of shops, unlike sales assistant placed your money in a tube today where we seem to have a town full of which then went along a series of wires to gyms, tattoo and nail places and vape shops. the cash office. Another memory that comes to mind is of My thoughts then took me on a wander Field House School where Mrs Barton and through the rest of Ilkeston, starting from the Mrs Jacobs were really lovely teachers. Then Market Place full of double decker buses and on to Cavendish School where Miss Hollingthe old Liberal Club on Lower Marker Place. worth put the fear of God into you. Other A little further down, Harry Whitehead’s fur- staff I remember are Miss Weston (music), niture shop took up both sides of Bath Street Miss Skills (English language and literature), Miss Peck (choral speech) and Miss King, the with his wife Bert (short for Bertha) selling headmistress. prams on the left. Below this was Harry’s brother on the other side of the arch: Arthur Another eccentric who comes to mind was the owned Kandy Kabin. boat keeper on the Beauty Spot, which was Reynolds Records was a popular music shop really beautiful then. The Beauty Spot was owned by David Reynolds. David had a stut- at the bottom of Little Hallam Hill at the enter so one had to be careful when buying sin- trance to Kirk Hallam estate. There was a gles and albums. Imagine asking for ‘De Do little shop, a square pond and a picnic area surrounded by trees. We used to call the man Do Do, De Da Da Da’! Actually he was a ‘Popeye’ and we hired rowing boats from lovely guy and his knowledge of the music him. industry was legendary. In my teenage years the places where you Taylors Corn Stores was lower down, opposite where Boots is now and the manager was could go to dance were the Premier, Graingers, little Co-op, big Co-op, Unity Hall and Mr Stirland, who ended every sentence with Bennerley Dance. ”Very much obliged, madam”. I can recall all these things but not what I Ilkeston had quite a few characters but the want from Tesco! Isn’t old age a confusion of ones I remember best are ‘Ecky’ (Hector memory! I hope that some of you who are as Doar?) who ran the swimming baths and ancient as me can recall similar interesting Frank Turner of the Scala cinema. Do you remember the shop covered in green things from your younger days, which seem and white Victorian tiles just above Mark and so different from the way things are now. Spencer? It was known as the ‘cats meat Steph Needham, Ilkeston
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Remembering Ilkeston Past
A class at Granby School around 1959, as remembered by Alan Chambers: Back row: John Trussell, Gary ?, Peter Warner, Alan Judd, Clive Fretwell, Peter Royle, Terry Duffield, Brian Eades, John Rigley. Middle row: Teacher ? , Kevin Limb, Ross Webster, Ivan Chambers, Charles Sudbury, Mick Hardy, ? , Stuart Armes, Philip Blount. Front row: ? , Chris Dean, Carol Limb, Jill ?, ? , Angela Richards, ? , Anita Dooley, Susan Baggot.
the £3,000 mark. Ilkeston FC manager Paul Holland has indicated that he will be in attendance and exThe IFCSG Annual Race Night will soon be pects members of the first team will also be there. upon us. The past couple of years has seen the Group stage highly successful events at The event is being staged on Saturday 19th The Dukeries Club on Cotmanhay Road and November with an 8pm start. Please come along if you fancy a flutter and there will be this year will be no different. prizes to be won. See you there! Anyone is welcome to attend whether you Duncan Payne are a member of the Supporters Group or not, and all monies raised from the event will go towards the purchase of a new PA system at the New Manor Ground. This year’s event will hopefully take us past Ilkeston FC Supporters Group
RACE NIGHT
6 Ilkeston Life, November 2016