Eastwood

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 a freezer centre, a single-storey flat-roofed building.
An extract from from"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 the corner of the evocatively named Scargill Street.
An extract from from"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, aged 8. It is a little ironic that the town D H Lawrence offended so much by Sons and Lovers now commemorates him, and even has a D H Lawrence Trail.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".

Further along Nottingham Road, Frith’s photographer looks eastwards towards Hill Top with the junction with Edward Road between the hedge and the wall. At this corner stands a war memorial to the Eastwood men who served in the Sherwood Foresters regiment during World War I. Part of the hedge is now railings, but the row of Lombardy poplars survive, now more mature, and so does the plane tree (right).
An extract from from"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 a freezer centre, a single-storey flat-roofed building.
An extract from from"Nottinghamshire Living Memories".