Drop-Down Navigation Menu Menu An Extract From The Domesday Book For Mapperley (Maperlie) and Early History Albert Buckley's Record Carp - Barry Dibb Ale House and Ye Olde Black Horse Article by Rev'd Simon White taken from The Stanleys Magazine of July 2006. Candlestick, Poem - Let's Goo A Bit Fother Candlestick (Royal Oak) Cecil Raikes Locomative Census, 1841, 1851 and 1861 Census, 1939 Census, 1911, Census Analysis - Thanks to D. Curtis Chapel of Ease. Mapperley Church, Holy Trinity Church Institute Cinderella Panto 1979 Country Fayre - 1984 Country Images, article on Shipley Hall Jan 2012 Cuttings Book - Harriet and Pat Gould Derby Evening Telegraph - Article Bishop Dedicates a Place of Quiet Derby Mercury - Grand Bazaar At Shipley Hall - 1863 Derbyshire Life and Countryside. January 1998 - Mapperley Derbyshire Words and Phrases Evacuees in Mapperley World War 2 - Memories and Information Glendon Iron Company (1870-1885) Guide to Coalfields 1956 Handleys, Martins and Walkers of Mapperley Households 1881 The Hovel (Soot Shed 1920) Ilkeston Advertiser 1969 Ilkeston Pioneer 1957 Inquest into death of Mary Flint, 1846 Jubilee Fund 1977 and Interesting Church Timelines Kirk Hallam Memories, With Links To Mapperley Lodges and Gates Lodge Row Houses Main Street, Mapperley Village, No 17 - Joe Henshaw Maple Saplings Take Root At Mapperley Mapperley Brick Works Mapperley Bridge Mapperley Castle and Park Wood Mapperley Colliery (Simon Pit) History Mapperley Pit Photos - Many Thanks to Jill Westerman and Gail Vindel Mapperley - Early History, Domesday to 1600 Mapperley, from Kelly's Directory of the Counties 1891 Mapperley, from Bulmer's History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire, 1895 Mapperley, from Kelly's Directory of Derbyshire 1941 Mapperley Knight by Bob Massey Mapperley Population Figures 1801 - 1911 Mapperley Mines Rescue Team - 1918 Mapperley Railway Branch Line Bombing WW2 Mapperley School Mapperley and West Hallam Information Memorial Inscriptions Memorial/Lych Gate Medieval Parks of Derbyshire Millennium Mugs Miller Mundys of Shipley Hall Miller-Mundy Provides Recreational Facility Miner Sacked For His Protest - D.A. Mackie Newspaper Articles Northern Lights over Mapperley Village, 10th October 2024 No 1 Mapperley Village And The Watheys Connections To West Hallam Scargill Trust Nutbrook Canal Open Casting 1979/80 Photos - Many Thanks to Dave and Jenny Thacker Park Farm, Pit Ponies and Alf Shaw. Park Hall Park Hall Farm and the Morgan Family Park Hall Farm Field 2021 - Coins Found by Metal Detector Park Hall was flooded with sludge Park Hall,(1778)(Field Names and Owners) Park Hall Farm Excavations 1970 (Ilkeston and District Local History Society) Picnic Tea Their 'Good Friday Effort' Post Office, Shops and Street Names Pre War Football Team Recalled circa 1935 Queen Elizabeth II Reservoir (known as The Pond) Reverend Gordon Bevan Royal Charter, 700th Anniversary, and Celebrations, 1967 Royal Charter, 750th Anniversary, and Celebrations, 2017 Royal Oak (Candlestick) Sawpit - Established 1810 Shipley Colliery Fatalities Shipley Colliery Horse Drawn Ambulance Lamps Shipley Hall Simonfield to The Brook by Roger Wood 2013 Smalley Lodge Bell Lane Stanley Colliery Fatalities Stanley Colliery 'Nibby' Pit Photos Stocks The Storms. Mapperleys 60's group Thomas Severn Variety Show in Holy Trinity c 1985 Water Tower - Roger Wood Watheys connections to West Hallam Scargill Trust Weslyan Chapel Mapperley/Methodist church West Hallam West Hallam Colliery Fatalities West Hallam Colliery - Terrible Accident 1891 West Hallam, New School Opened, 1935 Wheelwright Where Coal Was King. Ilkeston, Heanor White's 1857 Directory Of Derbyshire William Joseph Cliffe, named on the Memorial tablets Windmill Woodside Winding Shafts - Phil Wyles Wellington Bomber Flight W5795 crash landed 12th July 1942

Original Church 1850 - 1959

Temporary Church 1959

New Church 1966

Stained Glass Windows and Time Line

Vicars of Mapperley

Memorial Inscriptions

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During WWII The Rector of West Hallam was Rev W R Lloyd-Jones. He came to West Hallam at the end of October 1938 and left in November 1945. During his seven year term he was responsible for the churchyard extension and the raising of the Rectory re-building fund. He moved to All Saints, Islington being inducted on Friday 16th November 1945. He was followed by Rev Gordon Charles Craig Spencer.

Rev G.C.C. Spencer and Choir Mapperley Vicarage Garden 1952

Mapperley Church Choir Circa 1955

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Reverend Gordon Richard Bevan

I am unsure of the exact period that Gordon Bevan was a Parochial Reader but I have access to old copies of the West Hallam and Mapperley Church and Community magazine covering January 1959 to December 1968 and Mr Bevan was a reader during all of this period. The vicar he started working with was Rev. G C C Spencer until October 1966 and then with Rev Joe Martin from December 1966.

West Hallam and Mapperley Church and Community Magazine. April – May 1963

Thanks to Mr G Bevan

Rev Spencer writes – It is, I think, a matter of principle that we should remember, from time to time, to express our thanks to Mr G Bevan for all the help he gives both Mapperley and West Hallam, especially on Sundays, but also at Festivals. He has been a great help for many years now and we ought not to take such help for granted. His continuing interest, although living now in Chaddesden, is one of the foundation stones upon which the services are arranged for these parishes.

REVEREND G. R. BEVAN (Langwith) Obituary

Holy Trinity Church, Shirebrook, was full to capacity with family, friends, clergy and parishioners for the service which preceded burial at Holy Cross churchyard, of local minister the Rev Gordon Richard Bevan (84), who died at his home at Whaley Common, Langwith.  Born and educated at Derby, Rev Bevan had lived locally for 30 years. A telegraph boy at Derby LMS, he then worked at Ranby’s gents department before becoming a Bevan Boy, staying in mining for 20 years. After leaving the mines he owned a drapery business and in 1950 became a reader in the Anglican Church. Being ordained in 1976, he served at Spondon Church for five years before becoming priest in charge at Scarcliffe, rector of Upper Langwith with Langwith Bassett and WhaleyThorns and Scarcliffe.  His last post was as team vicar in the East Scarsdale Ministry, mainly at St Michael’s Church at Pleasley. Rev Bevan loved his church and his parishioners, family and grandchildren and will be remembered as a man of the people. Rev Bevan leaves his wife, Mrs Edna Mary Bevan, daughters Angela and Kathryn, four grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

Rev'd Spencer with West Hallam Choir

Date unknown but he was vicar of West Hallam and Mapperley for 20 years leaving in October 1966.

Rev. Gordon Charles Craig Spencer (Rural Dean of Ilkeston) was vicar of West Hallam and Mapperley for 20 years. He was priest -in -charge at Eastwood Parish Church before moving to West Hallam. 

Rev Spencer's 20 year term ran from 19th February 1946 - 1966. He was inducted by the Archdeacon of Derby at St. Wilfrid's on Friday March 22nd 1946. During his term the Vicarage at Mapperley was sold to a private buyer.

Rev'd Spencer died on 3rd April 2007 aged 93 years.

Reverend Gordon Charles Craig Spencer died on April 3rd aged 93.

December – January 1966/67 - Rev Joe Martin writes his first letter for the church magazine.

A short biography of the new Rector written at the time:-
He is Staffordian by birth, from Sandon in the Trent Valley. Educated at King Edward’s School, Stafford. Two years Stafford College of Art, one year Malvern College of Art and two years National Service with the Royal Engineers. After leaving the Army he spent one year with a small engineering firm.  In 1958 he went to Bishop College, Cheshunt, was made a Deacon in 1960, ordained priest in 1961. First parish as a Curate at Caterham, Surrey for 3½ years.

Interests: all sports but mainly soccer and cricket, art photography, “things” mechanical, music, history and gardening.

Rural Dean of Yorkshire - Reverend Joe Martin - The Archbishop of York, Dr Coggon

Reverend Joe Martin (centre) with the Rural Dean of Yorkshire on his left and on his right the then Archbishop of York, Dr Coggon, who later became the Archbishop of Canterbury ( Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, PC (9 October 1909 – 17 May 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980.

The picture was taken at Rev, Joe Martin's Induction at Hutton Buscel, Yorkshire following his time at West Hallam and Mapperley.

Photograph kindly supplied by Bill Skinner

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