The would-be dancing room was only 12 feet square, big enough for singing but certainly not for dancing !! Application refused !! Almost immediately William applied for a dancing licence but when the Borough Surveyor Henry Kilford inspected the Hotel, he found it in an unsanitary condition. with the same result … despite his argument that the dwellings and population in the area had grown sufficiently to warrant a broader choice of beverages to be offered.Įventually, in June 1894 Isaac transferred the licence to his son William and then left Ilkeston, with Priscilla, to farm at Fox Holes farm in West Hallam. though its name does appear as the Railway Hotel in the Derby Mercury of January 1873.įrom that time (and like many beerhouse keepers in Ilkeston) Isaac applied for a full licence to allow him to sell spirits, but he was consistently refused. The Yard was named after the West family of drapers who lived there and was approached via an alley at the side of the Market Inn. Issac was then trading as a blacksmith.Īt least from 1869 and for many years thereafter the Parkins were publicans at the Erewash Hotel beerhouse in New Street - later Station Road…. This was not the ‘Market Street’ of today but that side of the upper Market Place from the King’s Head and down to the Harrow Inn. On the 1861 census the Parkin couple can be found at “ West’s Yard off Market Street” with their four children. Priscillamarried Codnor-born blacksmith Isaac Parkin on April 12th, 1852. Harriett died, aged 7 weeks, in September 1835. William Rankin Patin arrived the patient was still alive but still bleeding profusely, and before he could effectively treat her, Selina died. She sent the child to fetch the doctor while she tried to stem the bleeding from Selina’s wound … attempts which lasted, fruitlessly, for almost an hour, and by which time Selina had lapsed into unconsciousness. That neighbour was Martha Wilkinson (nee Goddard and wife of Robert) who had been alerted to Selina’s accident by Selina’s grand-daughter, nine-year-old Amelia Roberts. According to her son she had complained about some sort of knee swelling for about two years and when he was called from his work on that evening he found his mother, sitting in the back yard, being attended by her neighbour. On that late summer evening she was taking in her washing line when she caught her knee on a chair, the blow causing a large ulcer to open and bleed profusely. Ten years later, on August 24th 1897, living with her son George at 13 Stanton Road, Selina suffered a severe accident. He was drunk at the time and had been drinking heavily several days prior to his death. Hillary committed suicide, dying at their Regent Street home on May 4th, 1887 after drinking three pennyworth of laudanum earlier purchased from the chemist shop of Charles Potts. Selina married warper Hillary Spencer on March 3rd 1851. The other daughter, Marina, died in infancy. One daughter, Elizabeth Morley, married miner Moses Bullivant Henshaw in February 1865, and died at 306 East Main Street, Amsterdam, New York State, in February 1917, aged 72. He died in that street on March 22nd, 1895, aged 74.īefore his marriage George had fathered two illegitimate daughters with Mary Morley, daughter of Cotmanhay schoolmaster John and Mary (nee Henshaw). George subsequently lived with his only legitimate daughter Selina and her husband – since February 1872 – Jonathan Slack Pursglove, cabinet maker, upholsterer and paperhanger of Market Street. Sarah Ann married miner George Wright on October 14th, 1850 and died on November 30th, 1871, aged 40, at the Spring Cottage Inn in Spring Lane, where her husband was the landlord. The children of William and Phoebe Bell ….Įliza married needlemaker Amos Tatham on May 24th,1847. Phoebe Riley was the daughter of Brinsley shoemaker John and Mira (nee Moss) and from April 1825 the wife of William Bell senior, blacksmith, framesmith and victualler, living near the confluence of Nottingham Road and Stanton Road - formerly Boot Lane - in an area previously known as Outram’s Buildings.īoth originally from Nottinghamshire, Phoebe and William came to Ilkeston after their marriage and raised a family of many daughters and two surviving sons, the elder of whom, William junior, took over the control of the Inn when Phoebe died in December 1879, aged 71. Her son William Bell junior was landlord after his mother’s death.” Leaving behind James Gallimore we arrive at yet another beerhouse.Ī twentieth century view of the Travellers’ Rest before it was demolished, in the winter of 1991/2 The Bell family at the Travellers’ RestĪdeline introduces us … “In White Lion Square was the Travellers’ Rest, landlady Mrs. Who is the landlord? …………………………… Emily Dickinson 115
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