Nottingham - NG3

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 20 Apr 2012

Goldswong Terrace - Wong being an old Saxon word for a field. Ernest Weekley, a professor of modern languages and his wife lived at No.9. Soon after D.H.Lawrence and Frieda Weekley became lovers, the couple left for Italy. They soon returned to Nottingham however, in order to try to re-establish contact with Frieda's children. Sadly the children’s father denied them access and as a result they returned to Europe. Frieda divorced Ernest Weekley in 1914 and she and D.H. were married in London in the same year. They had hoped to return to Italy but were unable to do so due to the outbreak of World War I. Instead they moved to Cornwall in 1915. As the war intensified, hatred towards Germans grew and as a result of this, and because Frieda was German, people began to despise them. They were ordered to leave the UK in October 1917. It seems that they visited Australia for a few weeks before sailing to Taos, New Mexico via New Zealand, Tahiti and San Francisco. They finally left North America in September 1925, 6 mths after David was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Apparently they lived in Italy between 1925-28 before moving to Vence in the south of France where David died on 2nd March 1930.

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