Comments 2025
September 2025
Hi, I was delighted to find this lovely history site when looking for information on the area my parents were born, they left Kirk Hallam after they married at Kirk Hallam church 1950. They moved to Ilkeston then later in their lives moved to Devon.
I was absolutely thrilled and surprised to find an article my Mum had written about memories of Kirk Hallam church, she is now 97 years old, she unfortunately has lived with Motor Neurones disease for 11 years, but always manages to look on the bright side of life. And still enjoys listening to Hymns particularly at Harvest Festival time, as she describes in the article.
Both parents have fond memories of growing up in the area and Dad had a picture framed of Kirk Hallam church which now hangs proudly in their living room, my Dad Albert Quail sadly died in 2022.
The article is……Church memories by Rita Quail (nee) cope
Thank you for the web site it is full of very interesting information.
Regards Hazel Crowther.
September 2025
Thank you for the web site it is full of very interesting information.
Regards Hazel C.
September 2025
Your website is excellent.
Derek A
April 2025
This is a great site for anyone wanting to learn about the history of Mapperley village and its inhabitants past and present. Well done Elaine and all fellow contributors !
Chris B.
January 2025
Just wanted to say how much I love your website. My dad was born in the village and his family lived in the village from the 1850s. Your website has helped a lot with my family history research, as well as it being fascinating in general. I've even found a portrait of my 3 x great uncle, George Oldershaw. You've done a fantastic job and I hope it continues.
Hazel H
(Ilkeston)
Comments 2023
November 2023
Your Mapperley History Website was really amazing to look through and had some great photographs and is very informative. We loved seeing the historical and recent photographs of the same places side by side, it was really lovely to see how the industry and buildings has changed.
ILKON Gallery, Ilkeston.
October 2023
I always tell folk to look at your website as an example of excellence.
G. S.
Derbyshire
June 2022
Thank you for producing the website, lots of information and memories in there.
G B
Walked along all I could of the Nottingham to Derby GNR line in early 2018 and was eager to find pictures of the bridge which crossed High Lane East. Am just doing a small video production of what I witness for my own use and was delighted to see the pictures of Thelson Bridge. Many thanks for including them on your website.
S & S R
Comments 2020
Can I say what a great job you are doing with the Mapperley website B R
Comments 2019
Astonished at the amount and quality of material you have gathered for Mapperley Village and its inhabitants. I cannot imagine how much effort you have expended.
D A
 Thank you so much for all the information and taking the time to collate it all. I loved the Easter egg drawing too.
P M Canada
March
Thank You for all your work and the website concerning local history
M S
Comments 2018
9th November
The children were fascinated by your website the other day, especially seeing the photographs of the village and the school as it used to be. Thank you for the hard work you have put into it, as it is a really wonderful site.
R Cripps, Mapperley C of E School
April 29th
Fantastic photos, I have never seen them before
KM
April 17th
I am astounded at the information on your site and it surely must be one of those sites that are rare but yet give out so much history of the local villages and people in them. This is all so important because otherwise it all gets lost in the annals of time.
DJ
March 27th
Just been looking at your web site again. Absolutely top class and what an interesting amount of news there is on it. I will in slow time look at all the stuff on the web relating to West Hallam, mind blowing.
NJ
13 Feb 2018
I had to write and say how fantastic your Mapperley History site is.
I loved it - such hard work.
We do Geocaching - which is like a treasure hunt from given coordinates and someone has set one where you have to find about history of things in certain places and two of them involve Mapperley. Once I started reading your site - it was like a good book - I couldn't put it down. I just had to contact you to tell you.
Once again an excellent site.
M
Comments 2017
30 Jan 2018
What a fantastic website, honestly the best I have ever seen. Well done, you have worked wonders.
A.S
3 Oct 2017
I have had so much pleasure seeing all the photos and reading all the stories.
C D
22 Sep 2017
Hello, I have just discovered these marvellous photos. The little girl at the end of the middle row is me. I lived in Shipley at the time in a house called, 'The Gardens'. I think the year was 1951 as I left Mapperley school when I was 7 years old. I can't tell you how wonderful it has been to look through all these photos and see my lovely old friends whom I haven't seen or heard of since the day I left. Thank you.
LM
19 May 2017
We hope to visit your village and finding your site I'll be sending my relatives the link - really interesting and informative - thank you.
BG
4 May 2017
Just looking at your excellent site. I have a photograph which I think will interest you and will send to you.
RC
30 April 2017
Your site is very impressive, full of interesting stuff, and you are to be commended for all your work on it. Well done.
BC
April 2017
It was nice to read about Mapperley Village in Ilkeston Life newspaper as my grandmother was born in the village and may still have a relation there who could be her great niece, I think her grandma Rose was my grandmothers sister. My grandmother is buried in the church yard under the name of Gertrude Stenson her maiden name was Birkin and the desk in the church was given by her a long while ago, it was still there about 5 years ago. I wish I could be there with you for your celebrations but can't as I live in Cornwall. Wishing you all the best.
Olive
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