by Robert Mee | Jul 31, 2024 | Latest News, Uncategorized
To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the opening of Ilkeston Library, on 24 August 1904, there will be a local history event on the Friday, from 10.00am till 2.00pm. Heanor & District Local History Society will be there, along with a small display of photographs...
by Robert Mee | Jul 9, 2024 | Latest News
Pride of place in the first display, on the history of Heanor Grammar School, that the Society put on at Heanor Library (in May 2024), were two commemorative plates presented to Geoffrey Stone, B.A., J.P. That display has now been replaced (and we hope to change the...
by Robert Mee | Jun 12, 2024 | Latest News, Visits
Walk up Angel Row in Nottingham, past the Bell Inn from the Market Place. You probably won’t notice it, but between the Barnardo’s Charity Shop and Nandos there is a doorway, a door into the past. The Society’s trip this year was a visit to the...
by Robert Mee | Jun 6, 2024 | Latest News
After long discussions with County Library Services, the History Society has now been given the go-ahead to buy a display cabinet for display in the Local History Section at Heanor Library. The first display features the history of Heanor Grammar School – quite...
by Robert Mee | May 27, 2024 | Themed History
A few stories to while away a winter’s night……… The Tantum Ghost The most famous ghost story of the area, dating from 1795, is told by William Howitt to the author R.D. Owen in his book, “Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World.”...
