This was the finest of their houses in Eastwood, semi-detached and higher up the valley. The ground floor and garden remain much as they were in the 1890s and are open to visitors by appointment.ĩ7 Lynncroft was the fourth Lawrence family home and is where his mother Lydia died in 1910. The house is privately owned but is run as a literary centre on behalf of the Association for Young Writers and an International Students' Society. Since it was an end house, the Lawrences paid an extra sixpence (two and a half pence) per week rent. This was a step up for the Lawrences – a better home with a scullery, porch and large private garden. In 1887 the Lawrence family moved to 5 The Breach (now 28 Garden Road), and lived here until 1891. By the time I get back to the writing I'm another man.” Lawrence commented: “When you've done the day’s teaching all your brightness has gone. In later years he would lose his religious conviction.Ĭlose to the Congregational Chapel was the British School where Lawrence spent three years as a pupil-teacher prior to studying for his teacher’s certificate at University College Nottingham. Lawrence was born into a deeply religious household and would attend the picturesque Congregational Chapel on Albert Street with his family. There’s also a gift shop where you can buy Lawrence memorabilia.ĭ.

The terraced house has been turned into a museum, offering visitors a unique chance to step back in time and experience what the house would have been like in the late 1800s. Lawrence’s father and the other industrial workers of Eastwood.Īlongside Durban House Heritage Centre, Lawrence’s birthplace and former home at 8a Victoria Street is the other major Lawrence attraction in Eastwood. These distinctive two-storey terraced houses were provided for industrial workers in the mid-19th century.Ī former miners’ welfare frequented by D.H. Running perpendicular to Victoria Street, where Lawrence was born, Princes Street includes the area of housing known as the Buildings. Lawrence and the region’s Victorian past. It now houses an interactive exhibition on D.H. The local council bought the property in 1995, refurbished it to its former glory and reopened it in 1998 as the Durban House Heritage Centre. The building was later converted into flats for the company’s managers, but by the 1980s had fallen into disrepair. Lawrence would often collect his father’s wages. There are also notes by Nottingham librarian David Gerard on ‘What Eastwood feels about Lawrence today’, (1968, M24, 204).ĭating back to 1876, this grand house is the former wages office for the Barber, Walker & Co coalmining company, where a young D.H. The Lawrences to Dr Andrew and Dorothy Morland (1930, DD791/1-6) Frieda Lawrence and Jessie Wood (nee Chambers) to the Hopkin family (1912-1952, DD670/2/1-17) The County House in Nottingham holds several Lawrence collections of original letters, including: Lawrence’s signature taken from his school desk upon which it was carved. The museum is made up of five 17th century cottages and includes a plaster cast of D.H. Some tapes and other works are available to lend.Ĭlose to Nottingham Castle and next to the famous Trip to Jerusalem pub, the museum charts the social history of Nottingham life over the past 300 years. The library’s oral history collection has several recordings made by Lawrence’s family, friends and acquaintances, as well as dialect readings and plays. There are also many interviews with, and books by and about, people who knew him. Along with texts (including early editions), bibliographies and critical works, there are television scripts, copies of letters and photographs. Central Library in Nottingham city centre boasts an extensive range of material by and about Lawrence.

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