20 Nov 2021 18:47:59
Stokey, you’ll most likely know this but where brinsley lodge is there is a little white cottage concealed in the trees, the railway used to cross there and it’s that setting that Lawrence describes in the odour of chrysanthemums.
21 Nov 2021 10:28:59
2 Star, thanks for that. I didn’t know that . I’ll certainly include it on ny next DH Lawrence walk. I usually meet up with my daughter and friends at the excellant Beauvale Priory tea rooms for a bit of breakfast and to look at the ruins setting for “A Fragment of Stained Glass†finishing up at the Horse and Groom setting for a pint of Courage Directors Bittetâ€. Cheers mate!
21 Nov 2021 11:59:21
As you’ll know the dirt hill which was visible for miles around was used by pye hill brinsley and moorgreen collieries, also it linked those collieries with the vast sidings of Langley Mill for the coal to be despatched by the massive coal trains far and wide . Different world mate - but seems like yesterday!
21 Nov 2021 16:27:59
Agree 2 StarðŸ‘! I always remember reading how Lawrence wrote about Eastwood that with a bit of imagination it could have become beautiful like an Tuscan hill town! I guess the first talent in becoming a literary genius is to huge imagination indeed!
21 Nov 2021 17:52:01
Haha - we used to laugh out loud out that statement . Joking aside though thatcher destroyed towns like Eastwood and there are many of them pal. Things needn’t to modernise but they brutality in which it was done was just nasty. They were once thriving towns with great values and morals, they were unique in their own way which most of us (probably even D H himself ) had a love hate relationship with .