Spooky

Do you believe in coincidences? Well how spooky is this? As we were walking home from church this morning a car pulled up at the top of Market Street and the occupants were looking at the Cenotaph. The weather was atrocious with the rain teeming down and it really was not a day for sightseeing at all but the couple were in the area for a wedding celebration and having come all the way from Cheshire, were taking the opportunity to investigate some family history.
 

It transpired that the lady was the sister of the late character actor Derek Nimmo (1930-1999) and also related to Harry Tatham-Sudbury, the architect of many iconic buildings in Ilkeston, the Cenotaph being one of them. We were able to give directions to other places in the town that they wanted to see that Harry had designed and answer some of their questions. The lady was armed with a folder full of genealogical information and a number of sheets showing photographs that she had downloaded from the internet, photographs very familiar to myself as they came from the Town Walk on this site. Now what are the chances of that? Of all the people in Ilkeston, on a Sunday morning in the pouring rain, two people from Cheshire bumping into someone who had actually taken the photos of the places they were looking for. Now that's spooky!