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It's funny how dog owners get into hot water if they don't pick up after their dogs have done their business but Horse riders don't bother and there's a heck of a difference what they leave on the roads.

Tornado hasnt been there for around 3 years

A jolly journey. Enjoyed this.

I have lost count of the number of times I have encountered gates on "cycle paths." Lifting my partners and my EMTB over these is a real pain and dangerous. Solution, I avoid these so-called "cycle paths" now and stick to the country lanes. I suspect they don't really want cyclists on these paths. I contacted Sustrans and gave locations of obstacles but the land owners build these gates without consideration of cyclists or more likely deliberately do it to discourage cyclists. I'm lucky, I can lift my our EMTBs but a lot of older folk (I'm 68) cannot lift a 24kg 52Lbs electric bike and would have to turn around and go back. The least they could do is have signs warning you that this cycle path has gates not suitable for bikes. I meticulously plan my routes using Ordnace Survey Maps and I use a GPSmap 64s. This makes life so easy, saves having to make detours and makes the ride so much more enjoyable.

Thank you. It is more than half a lifetime since I lived in Ilkeston, 45 yrs, and there were many places I do not remember or have changed beyond but you had my old Drink Den in there and quite a few nostalgisic glimpses. One I noticed and it always facinated be as a child was the Bank on Bath Street, Right Hand side going down with a wedge of a little wall outside. Think it was National Bank to begin then became Nat West. No idea why but I always liked to walk along that few feet of wall outside the entrance. Thank you again.

Brilliant video thank you so much for the memories. I wish you hadn’t turned right at Church Street but instead drove on past the Mallard!!

Amazing video and a brilliant channel. Do you have anything of Heanor Road near the Mallard and Cotmanhay near Church Drive? I’m Ilson almost all my life; love it or hate it; it’s home. Thank you so much for the great memories - Love and Peace ❤

I've walked this route - it's quicker by bike!

I like this - I have been on all this!

I think its the road built around Newthorpe sewage works going to the coal washing plant. Built around 1980

I went the many times

Oh please get rid of the music, a total turn off.

I go on this

Great but please name them ! Would like a picture of Gunns Toy shop on bath street.never seen a picture

Who stops the cars and pedestrians clrossing and who opens it?I can't see no warning lights.

And not one takeaway in sight back then lol

I lived there in the 70s still got family there

2:35 Aldi here now where those cars are parked.

WOW, What a blast from the past with this one Mr. I was brough up in ilkeston in cotmanhay to be precise, and i used to go to bennerly sckool back in the 80,s what a trip down memorie lane. I remember many fights at sckool going along cotmanhay road Wow. A lot of good and bad memories there....Now i live in the canarias islas in Tenerife since 1995. Its a lot more warmer then Ilkeston.....🌴 Thanks for posting this Mr.....👊😎....saludos....

wish you'd name em though, sometimes i cannot even recognise them or know where they where or are.

In these pics. most of Ilkeston is as tidy as anywhere else, but a small number of owners allow theirs to fall into rack and ruin and thereby let their neighbours and the entire town down. I can't help but recall my visits to my then wife's family living in an eastern block country, and me asking how it was that all cars, buildings and gardens were so well maintained / clean and tidy? I was informed that degradation was promptly reported and the culprits were criminally charged and fined. Surely at least our local authorities ought to have the power to triple the culprits' council tax?

Thank you. My Dad's friend always talks about Ilkeston, his hometown. But he has been never been there for about 24 years. Now, he's 93. When I'm visiting him again this year, he asked to seek a video about it. And he liked to have a trip, he wanted to see Granby Street, his house was demolished actually. And here we were. Your video tour is really excellent.

Hi, Go right to the end, about 07:30. I'm the second one in from the left, 2nd United Reformed Church, the one looking at my hand/wrist and looking around nervously. The lad to my right I think is Neil Magill. 1988 is too early because that would make me too young. I think 89 earliest, maybe 90 or even 91.

Must have been 88 or 89, because I am not with the 2nd and John Dolby is the GSL. Good to see Matt Rogers again, still miss him.