1348    It is recorded that a Watermill stood on the River Erewash near to Oakes Row and Meadow St. 

1764    Benjamin Outram born at King Street, Alfreton. 

1777   Cromford Canal Committee granted royal assent on 30th April. 

1778    James Oakes (junior) born. 

1779    First section of the Cromford Canal opened on 10th December.  Running for 11 miles,  from the mouth of the river Sour to Langley Mill. 

1784    William Jessop II born. In his later years, Codnor Park Memorial erected in his honour. 

1787    The Canal Society rejects plans to extend the Cromford Canal to the source of the River Erewash at Kirkby. 

1788    The Canals Committee approve taking the canal from Langley Mill to Cromford, with a branch line to Pinxton from Codnor Park. 

1790    Butterley Company established in Ironville. 

1792    Water reservoir built by Benjamin Outram & Co, to the rear of The Newlands Pub. Named ‘The Butterley Park Reservoir.  This was the first reservoir to be built and is today filled in and forms part of the Midlland Railway Centre’s park grounds. 

1792    Pinxton extension of the canal opened. 

1797    First iron furnaces built at Codnor Park 

1797   Benjamin Outram & Co build the first six cottages at Golden Valley ~ ultimately to be twenty cottages in all built in a continual stone               row. 

1799    Building of the Upper Wharf commenced.

 1800    James Oakes forms Riddings Iron Works with his partners Saxelby and Forester. Trading as ‘Thomas Saxelby & Co’. 

1802    Lime Kiln Row built by Benjamin Outram & Co (Butterley Company). A row of 11 cottages along with 4 lime kilns.

 1805    Mr David Mushet appointed as manager of Riddings Iron works. 

1805     Benjamin Outram dies.

1805     Butterley Company build their second foundry.  This ultimately produced 1,766   tons of iron a year - one sixth of iron output for                 the county of Derbyshire. 

1806    Thos Saxelby & Co. achieve highest rate of pig iron production in all of Derbyshire. 

1808    Red Road carriageway formed to replace the old bridle path from Jacksdale to Ironville. 

1808    David Muchet, manager of Riddings Iron Works leaves and sells his shares in the company to James Oakes.

 1808    Thomas Saxelby sells his shares in Riddings Iron Works to James Oakes.

 1809     Benjamin Outram & Company change their name to The Butterley Company. 

1809    Row of thirteen cottages built by the Butterley Company at Forge Row.           

1809    The Butterley Company purchase land from Lancelot Rolleston. 

1811    Foundry and Furnace Rows built with a schoolroom nearby.  Formerly known as Nether Bullock Close. 

1812    Carr Colliery opened.  Only mined for one year.  Situated South East of the main Butterley Works, off the main Butterley tunnel             with the only access via boat.

1812    Jacksdale Street built by Butterley Company Ltd for their employees. The street was first called ‘John Street’ and later known                 locally  as ‘Stone Row’.  Built alongside The Portland Wharf which was filled in the 1950s.  Jacksdale Street demolished in 1968. 

1813    Water mill filled in which stood to the rear of The Newlands Pub at Golden Valley. Two more iron furnaces and a ‘puddling’ forge                 added to the Ironworks. 

1814    William Jessop the Elder died.

 1814    James Oakes marries Sarah Haddon.

 1816    To 1821.  The Butterley Company issued their employees with special tokens,enabling them to purchase goods from the                     company’s own shop at Hammersmith. This was due to a shortage of minted silver coinage due to the Napoleonic Wars. 

1818    Iron foundry at Jacksdale completed.

 1818    James Oakes buys Forrester’s shares in Riddings Ironworks and becomes sole owner.

 1819    Butterley Company established a savings bank for use by their workers and managed by Mr Humphrey Goodwin.

 1820    Pottery built by the Butterley Company on the south bank of the canal. 

1821     Portland Pit (later known as Bentinck Pit) sunk. 

1821     Butterley Co build All Saints Church and vicarage in Ripley. 

1822     Portland Wharf at Jacksdale built.

 1822    Tramway running down Wagstaff Lane opened. 

1822     Ironville market established at the bottom of King ‘Billy’ Street. 

1823     Portland Row, Selston  built, which was a continual row of 47 terraced houses with no jennels.  (Demolished in 1966). 

1823     Butterley Company sink the Smotherfly pit at Somercotes. 

1825    Butterley Company sink Ormonde Colliery on their estate. Land to rear of Codnor Castle. 

1828    A third blast furnace added to the Ironworks. 

1828    Butterley Company sink the Heanor Colliery.  Later called Langley but always known locally as Bailey Brook Pit. 

1830    Butterley Company brickyard built at the end of Coach Road opposite the reservoir. 

1830    Riddings Ironworks has 500 employees. 

1830    Grimblethorpe Colliery sunk.  Situated behind Newlands Inn near Britain’s Pit Farm. 

1831    By this date The Butterley Company had 1,266 employees of which 388 were boys. 

1832    Meeting at ‘The Sun Inn’,   Eastwood to discuss plans to lay a rail road between Pinxton and Leicester. (6th Aug 1832). 

1834    Butterley Company build King William Street at Ironville, which was the axle to their new ‘model village’. 

1835    Butterley Company start building King William Public House. 

1836    To 1837 Victoria Street, Ironville built. 

1836    The Greaves family start the Ironville village post office. The Greaves ran the Post Office until 1895. 

1837    Queen Victoria comes to the throne.

1837    Population of Westwood 120. 

1837    ‘King William the Fourth’  Public House completed by The Butterley Company.

 1840    Albert Street, Tank Street and Meadow Street built at Ironville. 

1840    The ‘Big Six’ built at Pye Hill.  A pair of Doctors Houses built on the Cinderbank at Ironville.  Two additional rows of houses built                 at Golden Valley. 

1841    Village school built at Ironville by the Butterley Company. 

1842    Ironville C of E Church built. 

1843    Mechanics Institute  built on the banks of the canal opposite the end of King Billy Street.  Used as the companies offices and also housed a swimming pool and artisans lending library.  Built on the site of the old brewery.  

1844   The Butterley Company now employed around 2000. 

1845   Butterley Company sink Britain’s Colliery at Butterley. 

1846    James Oakes Company build Clay Works at Jubilee. 

1846    Rev John Casson ~ first Reverend of Ironville Church. Reverend-  until 1869. 

1846    Lime kilns adjacent to Forge House demolished to make way for Midland Railway line. 

1847    James Oakes erects world’s first oil refinery at Riddings Ironworks. It yielded 300 gallons a day and was distilled into paraffin oil for  lamps.  After only 2 years supply diminished. 

1847    Selston Lane Built.  Pye Hill No 2 Colliery sunk.  Selston Lane was originally called ‘New Road’. 

1847    Codnor Park & Ironville Station opens. 

1849    Pottery on south side of canal purchased by Mr Joseph Bourne & Sons Derby. 

1850    Main Road first tarmacadamed and formed part of the Manchester Road. 

1850    Mortuary built at the bottom of King William Street along with a brewery. 

1850    Ironville became a separate parochial district.  It was previously part of the parish of Alfreton. 

1851    Census ~ 103 Residents in Jacksdale (55 male & 48 female). 

1851    Butterley Company sink Exhibition Pit at Golden Valley. 

1852    Casson Street, Ironville completed. Named after the Reverend Casson - first vicar of the parish.

1851    Ironville School enlarged by government grant.  Built originally by The Butterley Company. 

1851    Cromford Canal sold to The Manchester, Buxton & Midlands Junction Railway.           

1852    William Jessop (the 2nd) dies.

 1853    First sod laid at Jessop Memorial by WS Greaves local nine year old boy.

 1854    Foundation stone laid at Jessop Memorial by Mr Francis Wright. 

1855    Avenue of trees planted by The Butterley Company on the Cinderbank, opposite the church. 

1855    Codnor Park Colliery closed. 

1857    Jessop Memorial completed. 

1858    Butterley Company build a brick works at Butterley Park. (Later demolished in1873). 

1860    Queen Street and Market Place, Ironville  - completed. 

1860    (To 1867) ‘The Ironville and Codnor Park Telegraph’ was the locally produced newspaper,  which was printed in King ‘Billy’                Street. 

1860    Grimblethorpe pit closed. 

1861    Census shows that 263 people lived in the 47 terraced houses at Portland Row,Selston  of which 117 were children. 

1861    Jessop Monument struck by lightning and rendered unsafe. 

1862    Ironville church hall built. 

1864    New Deeps Pit off Nottingham Lane, Riddings sunk as was the adjacent Cloddy Pit. 

1865    Westwood School built and opened on 10th April. 

1865    Mr Francis Wright of The Butterley Company presides over a meeting held in the school to form a Co~Operative Society. 

1866    Pye Hill Colliery No 1 Shaft sunk. 

1866    The Butterley Company now employed 6,000. 

1866    The Congregational Movement starts in Westwood and meetings are held in a room above The Royal Oak until a church can be                 found/built. 

1866    Ironville’s Working Men’s Club established  (in the mechanics institute) and functioned until 1914. 

1866    James Oakes builds workers terraced cottages at Pye Hill. 

1867     Butterley Co build St Pancras Station, London. 

1868     Congregational Tin Chapel built on Palmerston St. 

1868     Primitive Methodist Chapel built at Palmerston St. 

1870     By this time, The Butterley Company owned 16 pits and employed 8,000. 

1871     Buxtons Hill C of E School opens.  First headmaster - Mr William Wagstaff. 

1873     Butterley Co Brick works at Butterley Park demolished. 

1874    Pye Hill colliery no 2 shaft sunk.

1874    Butterley Co builds United Methodist Free Church built at Pye Hill. 

1874    Monument Lane created.

1875    Pye Hill Colliery opens. Arrival of Great Northern Railway Line ( Pinxton to Nottingham.) 

1875    Railway Station opens in Jacksdale ‘ Codnor Park & Selston Station’. 

1875    Albert and Meadow Street in Ironville, divided into two by railway lines. 

1876    Portland Hotel built on site of original pub. 

1877    Land Enclosures Act ~ Jacksdale starts to emerge as a village. 

1879    960 children from the Parish of Selston were entertained at Monument Hill by Lady Cowper. 

1882    Butterley Co build Primitive Methodist Chapel at Pye Hill (now demolished). 

1880s   Sedgwick Street in existence.  Named after the Sedgwick family who built 49 houses here in 1856. 

1882    Congregational Chapel opened on Palmerston St on 31st October on the site of the present day United Reform Church. This             replaced the original tin chapel. 

1883    Until 1886 ~ The Temperance Movement take over the Ironville Working Men’s Club established  in 1866. 

1886    Mr William Buxton leaves Buxtons Hill School after 15 years. 

1886    Ironville by now was a thriving shopping centre, boasting twenty-four shops, mainly situated in King ‘Billy’ Street. 

1886    Old furnaces closed in the Forge and replaced by two modern furnaces.

1888    Riddings Gas Works at Pye Bridge established (on site now occupied by Somercotes Rugby Club). 

1888    The Butterley Company takes up Limited Status. 

1888    Old Deeps Pit at Pye Bridge closes. 

1889    Canal tunnel at Butterley Park closed for repairs until 1893. 

1890s   York Avenue started and then Edward Avenue. 

1890    Butterley Co build brickworks at Waingroves Pit also called Marehay Brickyard. 

1892    New Selston Colliery ‘The Bull & Butcher Pit’ sunk. 

1893    During The Great Strike the 17th Lancers and the 2nd Dragoons kept order in  Ironville and were based at the Working Men’s Club.

 1897    Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. 

1897    Dixie Street built.  Named after Sir Wolston Dixie of Selston Hall.  Residents had no water until 1902 so for the first five years had to purchase water from a spring in the valley, by the wharf at a cost of 2/6d. 

1897    Population of Westwood 1700. 

1897    Bazaar held on Wednesday 19th March at Westwood School to provide the impetus for building a new church in Westwood, which would eventually be St. Mary’s. 

1898    Work commences on St Mary’s Church. 

1898    Rev. A Reid appointed Reverend of St Mary’s. 

1898    ‘Codnor Park and Ironville Station’ renamed ‘Codnor Park Station.’ 

1899    St Mary’s Church consecrated by Dr. Were, Bishop of Derby. 

1899    Clive House built at the bottom of Wagstaff Lane.           

1900    Early 1900s ~ Worthington family ran a horse brakes transport service to and from Ripley market place every Friday and Saturday.

 1900   Pipeworks and Clayworks opened by James Oakes. 

1900    Canal tunnel at Butterley park is closed. 

1901    Jacksdale railway station changes its name from CP & Selston to ‘Codnor Park Station for Ironville’. 

1902    Old Parsonage built at top of Palmerston Street by Earl Cowper. 

1902    Albert Avenue built. 

1902    St Mary’s Church licensed for weddings. 

1902    Bonfire lit on Monument Hill by The Butterley Company to celebrate the coronation of Edward the Seventh and the end of The Boer War. 

1903    Ironville School became a ‘voluntary’ or ‘non provided’ school supported by Local Rates, with the church being responsible for its upkeep. 

1903   Jacksdale Co~Op opened. 

1903    Pye Hill Male Voice Choir established. 

1904    Present day Social Club built and originally intended to be a butcher’s & slaughter yard. 

1904    Jacksdale Miners Welfare opened on 26th March. 

1906    Jacksdale School opened.  Jacksdale children attended Ironville school prior to its opening. 

1908    Jacksdale School opened ~ temporary building ~ 2 tin huts. 

1912    Jacksdale Picture Palace opened. 

1913    James Oakes & Kempson Co form The Midlands Acid Company at Pye Bridge. Producing sulphuric acid, coal derivatives and tar distilleries. 

1913     Butterley Co brickyard at Coach Rd demolished. 

1914     Butterley Company build a social club in Ironville. 

1914    The Working Men’s Club move to their new premises at The Crossings Club, Ironville.       

1914    217 men from Ironville enlisted. 

1914     Jacksdale Social Club opened. A limited company was registered on 18th March with starting share capital of £500. 

1915    A dance was held in Jacksdale Council Schools to raise money to provide clothing for the Belgian Refugees living in Jacksdale. £16 was raised. Source - R&H 12th Feb 1915. 

1915    East window in St Mary’s Church depicting the Ascension dedicated by the Bishop of Southwell on 5th June 1915. 

1915    Whit Monday in May - 44th annual temperance fete and gala took place in Codnor Park’s  monument grounds.  Source R&H 28th May 1915.

1915    August 26th - Auction held at James Pitts farm in Sedgwick Street.  Livestock and farming equipment was sold as Mr Pitts was giving up farming. Source R&H 20th Aug 1915.  

 1918    Prayer desk given to St Mary’s Church in memory of Lydia Louisa Sigourney~Edwards,  the church organist. 

1919     Butterley Co build brickworks at Kirkby and Ollerton. 

1919    Very large celebration at Monument Hill when 3000 celebrated the jubilee of the Co~Operative Society. 

1920    British Legion created in early 1920s. 

1921    Jacksdale War Memorial unveiled (Sat 9th Jul 1921). 

1921    Municipal Tip opens on Main Road. 

1922    Gate Inn at Westwood built. 

1923    Ironville War memorial unveiled (23rd Nov). 

1926    Two furnaces closed at Riddings Ironworks due to the Great Strike. Soup kitchens established at the bottom of King ‘Billy’ Street, in Ironville to feed the forge workers children. 

1932    Third reservoir built at the top of Monument Lane. (Underground reservoir).Opened on Saturday August 27th of this year. 

1932    Original Gospel Hall built in Franklin Road. 

1937    Butterley Company build a cricket pavilion at Ironville cricket club. 

1935    Old reservoir situated at rear of the Newlands Inn, drained and filled in. 

1939    Riddings Ironworks merges with Stanton & Staverley. 

1941    Jacksdale Iron Works employs first female workers due to WW2. Called ‘The Sunshine Club’ and employed on the manufacture of farm implements to help with the war effort. 

1943    Jacksdale Iron Works has its own medical service, which was available until 1969. 

1943    Stretch of canal between Hammersmith and Cromford closed. 

1945    Cromford Canal closed. 

1947    The end of the Butterley era of mine ownership with the nationalisation of the coal boards. 

1947    James Oakes Co changes its name to OANCO. 

1947    The chapel on the North side of the chancel in St Mary’s Church was dedicated by the Archdeacon RP Wilson on the 15th of June.

 1950s  Portland Wharf filled in. 

1950     Jacksdale station changes its name from CP for Ironville to ‘Jacksdale Station’. 

1950    Stanton & Staverley of  Riddings Ironworks incorporated within British Steel. 

1952    Font cover and cradle rolls donated to St Mary’s Church by the Sunday School as a Golden Jubilee present. 

1952    The plaque to those who fell in the Second World War was unveiled on the 16th November, by the Duke of Portland. 

1956     Co~Operative Bakery in Dixie Street closes. 

1956    Kirton brickworks at Ollerton opened.

 1956   Extensive modernisation at Pye Hill pit. New baths built. Electric winders installed. 

1959    Bull & Butcher Pit at Selston closed. 

1959    Soldier on top of Jacksdale War Memorial blown down in storm. 

1960    Coal preparation plant built at Pye Hill Colliery. 

1960     Extension to St Mary’s Churchyard completed. 

1962    Ironville Church Hall Built. 

1963    Jacksdale Station closed on 7th January. 

1964    Pye Hill No 1 shaft filled in. 

1965    Codnor Park Forge closed. 

1966    800 yard drift sunk at Pye Hill Colliery to improve ventilation and increase production. 

1966    Portland Row, Selston demolished. 

1966    The stretch of canal between Jacksdale & Langley Mill filled in by local farmers. 

1967    Pye Hill United Methodist Free Church at Pye Hill demolished due to subsidence. 

1967    Codnor Park Station closed and demolished. 

1968    Jacksdale Street demolished. 

1969    Butterley Company sold. 

1969    Riddings Ironworks closes. 

1971    Acid works at Pye Bridge closes. 

1972    Swimming pool installed at Ironville School.  Nursery school built on the corner of Casson Street. 

1973    Original tin huts erected in 1908 as temporary structures at Jacksdale School finally removed. New kitchen and infants wing added.

 1973    The old King ‘Billy’ Street demolished along with Furnace and Foundry Rows. 

1974    Stained glass window ‘The Shepherd and the Sheep’ donated to St Mary’s Church by Ida and John Worthington. 

1974    Jacksdale station and viaducts demolished.  Also Launder’s Cottage on Community Centre site. 

1974     Municipal Tip closed. 

1974    Round kiln at James Oakes pipe yard closed. 

1976    The old pipe organ at St Mary’s church was dismantled and sold to be replaced by an electric version. 

1976    Forge demolished. 

1977    Jacksdale ‘open air’ market started. 

1978    Piper Seam developed at Pye Hill pit. 

1979    Primitive Methodist Chapel on Palmerston Street demolished along with the rest of Palmerston Street. 

1980    Vicarage built on Church Hill. 

1981    Coach Road reservoir came under threat when the Waterways Board proposed  it be filled in and used as a tip.  Planning permission was denied. 

1981    Gospel Hall on Franklin Road gutted and rebuilt. 

1981    Old caretaker’s house next to Westwood School converted into a Pre-School Nursery. 

1982    Jacksdale Community Centre opened on 22nd January 1982. 

1983    Esso oil company given permission to test drill for oil at Monument Hill.

1983    Experimental pelletisation plant opened at Pye Hill Pit but lasted only one year. 

1985    Congregational Chapel at Palmerston St demolished. 

1985    Pye Hill Colliery closes.  Black shale seam exhausted. 

1986    United Reform Chapel built on Palmerston St on old Congregational Chapel site. 

1987    James Oakes Clay Works at Jubilee closed. 

1988    Baths and Canteen demolished at Pye Hill Pit. 

1991    Jacksdale Nature Reserve opened by botanist David Bellamy on old municipal Tip site on Main Road.

 1992    Councillor Jack Brown calls for Jessop Monument to be restored. 

1993     Industrial Units opened at Pye Hill. 

1995    Hanson Corporation take over Butterley Brick works at Ollerton. 

1996    Pre-School Nursery added at Jacksdale School. 

1997    Jacksdale War Memorial name plaques replaced an re-dedicated. 

1997    Jack in a Box Playgroup moves into Jacksdale School. 

1998    Cast iron bridge, over canal removed for safety reasons.