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Kelly's Directory, Derbyshire, 1891> This page |
| Ironville, Derbyshire |
| 19th Century Derbyshire Directory Transcripts |
| From: Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland pub. London (May, 1891) - p.242 |
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IRONVILLE is a populous township, in the parish of Alfreton.
Ironville is half a mile north from Codnor Park stations on the Erewash
section of the Midland and Great Northern railways, and 3½
miles south-east from Alfreton, in the Mid division of the county,
Scarsdale hundred, Belper union, Alfreton petty sessional division
and county court district, and in 1850 was formed into an ecclesiastical
parish from the civil parishes of Alfreton, Pentrich, Heanor and Codnor,
in this county, and Selston, in Nottinghamshire, Codnor Park, though
a separate township, being within the ecclesiastical parish, rural
deanery of Alfreton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell.
The township is close to the Cromford canal, and the Pinxton canal
commences here. The place is lighted with gas and supplied with water
by the Butterley Company. Christ Church, erected in 1852 by the Butterley
Company, is an edifice of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts,
south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and
one bell : in the chancel are three memorial windows to William Jessop
esq. and in the baptistery, a memorial window and tablet, erected
in 1873 by the parishioners, to Francis Wright esq. ; in the south
transept is a stained window placed in 1871 by the Rev. W. E. Littlewood
M.A. then vicar: and in the north transept a memorial tablet to the
Rev. John Casson, first vicar of this parish: in 1885 the choir was
completely renovated and new stalls erected: there are 600 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1850. The living is a vicarage, gross
yearly value £250, with residence, in the gift of five trustees,
and held since 1887 by the Rev. Rowland Paul Hills M.A. and LL.D.
of Queens' College, Cambridge. There is a Free Methodist Chapel here,
built in 1874, and seating about
300 : and a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1883-4, and seating
150. The cemetery consists of about 3 acres. Most of the inhabitants
are employed in the steel and iron works and at the smelting furnaces,
immense quantities of iron being wrought in this neighbourhood ; there
are also collieries. A weekly market is held on Saturday. In the neighbourhood
is an extensive park, the property of the Butterley Co. used by the
inhabitants of this district as a recreation ground, and in the centre
is a monumental pillar erected in 1854 by the workmen and friends
of the Butterley Co. to William Jessop esq. the founder of the works.
The Butterley Co. and the Midland and Great Northern Railway Cos.
are the chief landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil, chiefly marl
and clay. The area is 1,407 acres; rateable value included with Alfreton;
the population in 1881 was 2,802. Sexton, Herbert Jefferies. POST, M. O. & T. O., S. B. & Insurance & Annuity Office.- William Samuel Greaves, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Alfreton at 7.30 a.m. & 4 p.m. Box closes for dispatch, 9.10 a.m. & 6.15 & 7.30 p.m. week days & 9.55 a.m. sundays. Money orders granted & paid from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, sunday excepted. Office opened on sunday from 8.30 to 10 a.m SCHOOLS. :- National, erected in 1850 by the Butterley Company, for 300 boys & 200 girls; average attendance, 250 boys & 162 girls; Wm. Carter Pegg, master; Miss E. Avery, mist Infants', erected in 1850, for 250 infants; average attendance, 185; Miss Allen, mistress Dickinson Fredk. M.D. Ironville house Hills Rev. Row-land Paul M.A., LL.M. Vicarage Hooper Marshall, Ironville house COMMERCIAL. Arter William Henry, King William the Fourth P.H. King William street Bailey Wm. grocer, King William st Bates Ann Sarah (Mrs.), grocer, King William street Brown Thos. shopkpr. 15 King William st Calladine Thos. tobccnst. King William st Clarke Maria (Mrs.), greengrocer & shopkeeper, 20 King William street Clarke James, dealer in earthenware &c. 33 King William street Codnor Park & Ironville Savings Bank (John S. Booth, sec) Co-operative Stores Limited (Arthur Cope, manager; John Hawley, sec.), 4 King William street Dickinson Frederick M.D. resident surgeon to the Butterley Co. & medical officer for Codnor Park district of Basford union, Ironville house Farnworth Jn. baker & gro. Victoria st Fouds Daniel, draper, Victoria street Greaves. A. & Son, manufacturing chemists & druggists, seedsmen oil & colormen, King William street, & at Chesterfield & Tibshelf Greaves Wm. Saml. sub-postmaster & insurance agent, King William street Hole J. & Son, tailors, 6 King William st Holmes Thomas, grocer, Market place Hooper Marshall L.R.C.P. Edin. surgeon, & public vaccinator Codnor Park District, Basford union, Ironville ho Leighton Isaac, shpkpr. 11 King William st Lowe Albert, grocer &c. King William st Marlow William, shopkeeper Martin William, shopkeeper Albert st Naylor Joseph, shopkeeper, Casson st Pitt Samuel, draper, King William st Sharplin Philip, printer & news agent, King William street Shelton Samuel, watch & clock maker, King William street Skelton Hy. fishmonger, King William st Smelton Saml. butcher, King William st Taylor Robt. hair dresser, King William st Thompson Jas. linen drpr. King William st Tomlinson J. & T. & Co. grocers, drapers & agents for H. R. Williams & Co. wine & spirit merchants, King William street Tomlinson Thomas, grocer &c. see Tomlinson J. & T. & Co Tomlinson Thomas Gilford, grocer &c. see Tomlinson J. & T. & Co Webster Joseph, tailor & draper, King William street Wilmot Charles Henry, shopkeeper Winson Thomas, shoe maker, 16 King William street [End of transcript. Spelling, case and punctuation
are as they appear in the Directory.]
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