THIS IS A PAST EVENT21st March 2010
DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum
This house at 8a Victoria Street, is where David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in 1885 and is the first of the Lawrence family's four Eastwood homes. Through a guided tour you will be able to learn about his family life and the type of working class home and mining family that shaped his formative years. The venue is open from 10.00am until 4.00pm on Sunday, 21 March, 2010. For more information call 01773 717353.
Durban House Heritage Centre, Mansfield Road, Eastwood, NG16 3DZ
The Heritage Centre, on Mansfield Road, offers an exhibition on D. H. Lawrence and the local area's proud mining history. There is also a temporary exhibition space known as the Rainbow Gallery. As a boy D. H. Lawrence would pick up his father's wages from this impressive building, which was the offices of the local coal owners, Barber, Walker & Co.
The centre is open 10.00am until 4.00pm on Sunday, 21 March, 2010.
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