tenant farms except Lowes Lane and Sowbrook –

                                   1969 grass, 2 poultry farms
Depopulation: from beg. 19th century, as people moved off land to factories (Ball)
                        from beg. 20th century no building until 1952 (2 council houses, built by
                             Stanton [Ball]) and
                        1967 St Norbert’s House, built by Aldred, Ilk. builder, because its land owned
                             by Ind Coope (Ball)
                       all the houses were similar, stone and painted green.
                        Half as many people as in 19th century because derelict houses were not
                             rebuilt
                       8 houses at the Moor and one on the inside of the Woodpecker bend
                       houses reverted to estate ownership on death

Buildings general: 1778 estate owned by Lord Stanhope, passed to Stanton

Ironworks 1912 – my notes talk of a map…

1846 mostly brick and thatched

other bits were owned by Drury Lowe and Mapperley Colliery (Ball)

                                farms owned by Pension Fund, administered by Strutt and Parker
                               White Cottage built early 19th century by Maud’s mother’s grandmother
                                   for £37 +  10s for pigsty
                                   Maud had a photo of it before it was extended (also in Ball)
Abbey House:   Maud had photo;  it had leaky thatch
                          work in the museum done by Ilkeston and District Local History Society in
                                         1969;  their newsletter Aug 1969 p.13 mentions Mr Bentley and Mr                                           Scopes (cleaning and making new showcases)
                         garden opposite shown on OS map
                         Mr Lyneham used to grow goosegogs in garden opposite our house
                         photo with front window like bathroom window, in Derbyshire Countryside,
                                         Vol. 16, No. 5, Jan-March 1947, pp. 61-2
Manor House: small door inside, carved wood (Hall, p. 259, 1863)
Pinfold at end of the Institute
Institute: built 1845 for the use of Odd Fellows  ‘do’s’ Easter Mon, Whit Wed, led by Dale                  Abbey brass band
            became house, occupied by Freeman.
             taken over by Estates under Scopes.  
             damp
Poplar farm: 18th century with 16th century timber front
    much altered 1975 but stairs original, relic of abbey
    originally thatched

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