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Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
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Historic maps of Eastwood and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Eastwood maps
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Eastwood books
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Nottingham Photographic Memories
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Memories of Eastwood
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Eastwood, Beauvale School 1956
I started Beauvale School in 1956 when I was 5 years old. At that time I lived with my parents at number 53 Raglan Street, Hilltop. I walked to school and back every day with my mum. I have fond memories of the old school and was there for 6 years and then my dad found work outside of Nottingham. My... [more]
Shared on 21 July 2008
The lady on the photo is my Mum. She was waiting to meet me out of Beauvale School. The baby in the pram was a neighbour's little girl, my friend Teresa. ( We are still friends today.) Teresa was 10 years younger than me, so I would be nearly 11 at that time.
Years later, from 1965-67, after 7 years... [more]
Shared on 03 April 2007
During my schooldays I often visited Eastwood from Hucknall, my mate David Scrimshaw and I had many happy times there. We were travelling back to Hucknall one day on the bus, and two girls waved to us from a small park near hilltop. We got off and asked them for a date, they both accepted. My date's name was Irene and... [more]
Shared on 29 June 2009
Nottinghamshire memories
I remember going to the Goose Fair in Nottingham in the late 1940s and we used to stay with my Uncle Jim Bradbury in Hucknall. On the way back from one of these trips my dad bought some meal for the pigs (he and grandad had lots of them on an allotment), anyway it was late when we got back and... [more]
Shared on 25 July 2008
When our family, consisting of myself, Jean Pauline Smith, my mother who has since passed away (also called Jean, but her middle name is Audrey), and my sister and brother came to Bulwell, we came from the famous or infamous Balloon Wood flats, in Wollaton. We were given a three bedroom house on Hornbeam Gardens, Snapewood. It was a cold September... [more]
Shared on 10 March 2009
Balloon Woods. Most people says it was a hell hole. Yes some parts of it was. But to a child it was good. There were more quite a few blocks. Some had four floors, these were called Tansley Walk, Bealey Walk, Hartington Walk and Peak Walk. They had areas where we could play in safety. We as a family lived on... [more]
Shared on 10 March 2009
Although I was only a boy. Me and my two brothers went Percy Street School. Mrs Evans was the teacher I remember very well. We lived on Davids Square. We had many happy hours at the Vernon picture house, the old flea pit. Also on Billy Bacon's Field, Vernon Park and watching old Basford United, and making a lot of a... [more]
Shared on 28 January 2009
I have so many happy memories Of Nottingham. My parents would take me to visit an aunt & uncle there in the early 50s. My aunt lived in Ratcliffe, my uncle had the Ratcliffe Golf Club and they lived on the premises. I was very friendly with their neighbours, and the one thing that really stuck in my mind was how... [more]
Shared on 11 April 2008
Extracts From Eastwood & Nottinghamshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Eastwood, inspired by Frith photos.
Nottinghamshire Living Memories
We are looking downhill from the east, and the entrance to D H Lawrence's Victoria Street can be seen half-way down on the right by the white building. The church on the right with the spire, the Congregational chapel, was where D H Lawrence first met Jessie Chambers of Haggs Farm. Unfortunately (and perhaps unsurprisingly in relation to the scandals Lawrence provoked), the church was demolished in the 1960s; the site is now occupied by... [more]
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Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Eastwood is, of course, famous as the birthplace and home of D H Lawrence. This view from the Mansfield Road junction looks uphill along Nottingham Road, the principal shopping street, lined by mostly 19th- century buildings. To the left of the car, by the white painted building, is the entrance to Victoria Street, where in No 8a D H Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885. The house, a two-up, two-down and attic, is now a museum which spreads into the shop next door, on... [more]
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Nottinghamshire Living Memories
Turning into Dovecote Road we wind half a mile east to the corner of Mill Road to finish this chapter on a literary note. Erected as the Greasley Board School in 1878, it is now named Greasley Beauvale D H Lawrence Infant School. The door at the far left has the inscription 'Boys' above it, so through this door young D H Lawrence entered in 1893,... [more]
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