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- 5 photos on Eastwood appear in 1 Frith books - View photos 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 dad used to work at Moorgreen Pit in the NCB Workshops. I only wish that all schools were like this one today. I can also remember going and working in the school allottment on the opposite side of the road which I really enjoyed.
Contributed by David Burrows
Waiting at school
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 at Nottingham High School for girls and 3 yrs.at teacher training college at Thornbridge Hall, in Derbyshire,, I went back to Beauvale as a teacher ! Sadly my Mum died on Jan, 5th 2008.
Contributed by Sue Mounsey
Nottinghamshire memories
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 dad used to work at Moorgreen Pit in the NCB Workshops. I only wish that all schools were like this one today. I can also remember going and working in the school allottment on the opposite side of the road which I really enjoyed.
A memory of Eastwood contributed by David Burrows
Waiting at school
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 at Nottingham High School for girls and 3 yrs.at teacher training college at Thornbridge Hall, in Derbyshire,, I went back to Beauvale as a teacher ! Sadly my Mum died on Jan, 5th 2008.
A memory of Eastwood contributed by Sue Mounsey
Extracts From Eastwood & Nottinghamshire books
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".