Eastwood, Albert St - NG16

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 7 Sep 2012

A plaque on the side wall of this frozen food retail store at the junction of Albert Street and Nottingham Road flags up the fact that the Congregational Church that the Lawrence's once worshipped at stood on this spot. D.H. Lawrence's mother, Lydia, was a keen attender who sought to improve her spiritual and social life, and her children's, through her participation at it. Her husband, "a butty man" (an independent foreman miner, who led a small team of miners who worked for him) didn't aspire to the same dizzy heights and there was apparently a great deal of friction between husband and wife. There is a suggestion that they became less and less compatible and that Lydia tried to turn the children against their father. D.H. Lawrence certainly seems to have abandoned any religious convictions in his teens.

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