It has two art galleries, a small theatre, a craft centre and the former
mine office which is now a focal point for literary meetings all clustered
around Lawrence's birthplace. While the town library is like a shrine to the
writer.
The colliery closed in 1985, nearby (about 5 miles) there is a huge modern
retail complex
while in the town I noticed women staffing everything with blokes standing
outside the pubs with their fags and pints.
2009/9/4 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
> Sounds like the start of something - go with the flow, David. Give us more
> of the town (and the 'artistic quarter' especially).
>
> Andrew
>
> 2009/9/4 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > (a mere doodle this but very much a snapshot from the other day)
> >
> > Eastwood
> >
> > In the White Peacock
> > dodging rain
> >
> > opposite number 8a
> > (three up two down)
> > Victoria Street
> >
> > looking down out o’ town
> > past the brick faced
> > Wesleyan Chapel
> >
> > Over the rolling hills
> > over the dip and rise
> > and running
> > flung green ground
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
> > You say are poems" - DMeltzer
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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