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Mansfield Road, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 3SS

Smart hotel and conference centre just off Mansfield Road. Strangely, the web site omits the interesting history of this building - http://www.eastwoodhallnottingham.co.uk/ . The house was built in 1810 for the Plumptree family who owned the Plumptree Colliery just to the north. It was purchased by George Walker around 1830 as the family home. The Barber & Walker company by then owned and ran many collieries in the Eastwood area. The house was eventually acquired by the Barber & Walker company in 1916 and converted to their head office. The business partnership between the Barber and Walker families started in 1787 and it remained strong until the 1947 nationalisation of the coal industry. The new National Coal Board acquired the hall as their area office and it later became their headquarters. Planning for the national miners' strike of the 1980s took place here. The last coal mine in the area closed in 1985.

Built in c.1810 by the Barber family, who came to run the local coal mining industry, it eventually passed to the National Coal Board, forming their regional offices, with extensive new build to the north of the house. Now a large conference and event centre. The original house is Listed Grade II.

Eastwood Hall, formerly the headquarters of the National Coal Board and now a hotel and conference centre, is surrounded by mature parkland.

Built as the home farm to Eastwood Hall, and early 19th century model farm which survives with little alteration. Converted to residential use c.2015, Listed Grade II. A feature of the buildings is that all corners are constructed with bull-nose (rounded) bricks.

Built as the home farm to Eastwood Hall, an early 19th century model farm which survives with little alteration. Converted to residential use c.2015, Listed Grade II.

A warm autumn afternoon. Looking northward towards Brinsley from Eastwood Hall grounds.

Corner of Greenhills Road. Pic by Tom

One of several tracks leading to Coneygrey Farm.

Large house situated on Mansfield Road, which together with Image a short distance away makes up an interesting exhibition of the life and times of D H Lawrence. The building itself was built in 1896 as the administration offices for Barber Walker & Co, who ran the coal mines in the area until nationalisation in 1947. http://www.lawrenceseastwood.co.uk/durbanhouse.htm Image

A view of one side of Durban House from the Mansfield Road Recreation Ground. This museum is situated on Mansfield Road on the corner of its junction with Greenhills Road. Durban House was built in 1896 for the Barber Walker mining company. It once housed the wages office for Brinsley Colliery, the colliery where D.H. Lawrence's father worked and it was here that the young D.H. (”Bert”) Lawrence would sometimes be sent to collect his father’s wage packet. Later on the house was turned into a mining institute, with a concert hall, billiard table and a library, before being converted into flats. More recently the house was left empty for several years, whereas nowadays it holds many of the Lawrence historical collections.