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To writer D H Lawrence, the Nottinghamshire seen from his Eastwood mining village home was "the country of my heart". Lawrence, who crafted the internationally lauded gems as Sons and Lovers, Women in Love and The White Peacock, rarely had a good thing to say about industrial Britain, or anywhere else for that matter where heavy industry trampled on beautiful countryside. You can pick up this message at the D H Lawrence Durban House Heritage Centre in Eastwood which is on the 8mls/13km Rainbow bus route from the centre of Nottingham. The D H Lawrence Birthplace Museum in Victoria Street, Eastwood offers a better understanding of the harsh influences dictated by coal at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. But the twist to the story begs the question: had there not been such extreme stresses and strains in society at the time, would The Rainbow, Lady Chatterley's Lover and the family of Lawrence's brilliant creations, ever emerged?
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