Derbyshire, UK
Ilkeston Database of Places
The Following is a list and details of places in Ilkeston which have had paranormal, unexplained activity. Some are from reports in paper, by members of the public and other sources.
Pubs, Clubs and Inns
Bulls Head Pub - Account
Wine Voults - South Street - unexplained Activity (Smells, noises, Apparition)
The Havelock - Apparitions, flickering resonsive lights, noices and bad presance in cellar
White Lion Pub
Poltergeist Activity, noises and feelings, spirits may have moved to Havelock. (Demolished)
The Gallows Inn
Paranormal Activity relating to the bridge regarding a murder, also Horse and Cart noises, feelings, apparition and is site of the Gallows and Ducking stool.
The Market Inn
The Market inn - over 170 years old and close to 2 graveyards different experiences, from noises, physical movement of doors and knocks, to breathing, sighs, groans and at least 2 apparitions, staff experiences including some that were so scared that they wouldn't go to certain parts of the pub on their own.
Homes
House’s on
East St and Burr lane - Demionic shadows, mist, noises and feeling, apparitions. All surrounding the deaths of Children that have took place
Wood Street, Little Hallam Ln, Wirksworth (KH), - Demonic shadows, apparitions, mist, moving abjects and emotional feelings, child and adult spirits
Palmerston (New Housing Estate next to old Graveyard, and onsite of Hallcroft School - Unexplained activity reported.
Glebe Cresent and Sudbury Avenue) - Shadows, Black Mass, Paranormal Activity - Recent reports
Old Church - The HOP
JD Cafe (now the HOP) - Polterguiest Activity, Paranormal phenomena - Recent Reportings ARTICLE
Manor Road
Apparition (1 sighting from 1980's paper). Recent reports of activities in homes - Report
Woods
Blue Bells Woods, Cotmanhay and Ladywood (Kirkhallam) Woods - Various Activity
Lady of the Woods - Ladywood Road Kirkhallam
Last report 1983
Kirkhallam has not been left out as it has its own spooks, apart from the Dale abbey reports, there have been reports of a ghost of a white lady seen in the Ladywood woods, locally known as White lady Woods
Fionas Hairdressers
Hair Dressers (Fiona’s Bath Street) - Paranormal Activity - Recent reports - Account
Scala Cinema
Scala - Unexplained Activity – Recent Reportings - Noises,
Derby Street
Hawthorn House - Multiple Poltergeist Activity, Smells, noises, attacks and other reports - REPORTS - (Demolished)
Monks Way and Cave
Hermits Cave - Dale Abbey - Unexplained Activity (Smells, noises, Apparition) - Account
Monks Sightings at Hermits Cave, Woods and various homes along the hermits/monks walk - Accounts
Bath Street Shops
Wilkinson Store - 1 Apparition
South Street Shops
Takeaway - (Southern Fried Chicken), also
Manors Chipshop - Feelings of bad energy, noices - mostly stairs to and attic.
Jackson Chippie - Activity
CO-OP Building - Apparition and strange actvitiy.
Walkers on South Street - now the Brewery tap - haunted by a man called the umbrella man - Apparition and noises.
Church Institute
Corner Cafe Building (incl Sewing Shop) - Paranormal Activity - Recent reports - Report
Ilk Town Hall
Town Hall, Ilkeston - Unexplained Activity backed with past events and police
Morrisons Site
Sudbury House and former site of the College - Apparition and Paranormal Activity
Gallows Inn Meadows
Gallows Inn Close - (otherwise known as Gallows Inn Meadows) - Unexplained and Paranormal Activity (Smells, feelings, apparition, orbs and shadows/mass) - various homes
East Street and Burr Lane
Solicitors - (White Building on East Street) - Unexplained Activity (Smells, feelings)
Shipley Park
The Gardens - Apparition, smells and Paranormal Activity - Report
Shipley Park - Apparition, attacks/touch, and Paranormal Activity - Recent reportings- Report
Grave Yards
Old Park Grave yard - Unexplained Activity (Smells, feelings)
Stanton Grave yard - Unexplained Activity (Smells, feelings, apparition, orbs and shadows/mass)
St Marys Grave yard - Unexplained Activity (Smells, feelings)
St Marys Church and Cantelupe Centre
Cantelupe Centre and St Marys - Unexplained Activity (Smells, Noises)
Rutland Garments
Rutland Garments now Premiere Furnishings - Chairs would move and weird noises but we were told that when it was Rutland Garments a lady hung herself in the ladies and she's been there ever since.
Toy Store - South Street
1 Apparition (No other recent experiences)
(Still Standing)
The Girl In the window – the toy shop
This again was found derived from stories in the Advertiser. In the July 19 th edition of 1974, there is an account of the owner seeing the reflection of a ghost in the window behind him and his escape for the spectre.