This trail, established by Nottinghamshire County Council and Broxtowe Borough Council as part of the Eastwood Phoenix Project, takes you on a fascinating tour through the bustling town of Eastwood where Lawrence and his family lived.

For Lawrence, these formative years blossomed in an artistic surge which was to fill the pages of novels. They spill with local characters and associations, painting a graphical picture of the highs and lows of a mining community.

Lawrence's unique ability to capture both place and landscape is now demonstrated by the use of 14 literary plaques placed in the actual settings of the novels. Completing the trail you are able to share his inspired views of industry and landscape and gain an extra appreciation of the novels, characters and sites that once graced this area.

1. Durban House, Mansfield Road: "These offices were quite handsome; a new, red-brick building, almost like a mansion, standing in its own well-kept grounds at the end of Greenhill Lane. The waiting room was the hall, a long, bare room paved with blue brick, and having a seat all round, against the wall."Sons and Lovers

2. Mechanics Hall, Mansfield Road: "The library was open in two rooms in the Mechanics Hall, on Thursday evenings from 7 till 9. Paul always fetched the books for his mother, who read a considerable amount, and Miriam trudged down with five or six volumes for her family. It became a custom for the two to meet in the library."Sons and Lovers

3. Mansfield Road/Nottingham Road junction: "They came near to the colliery. It stood quite still and black among the corn-fields, its immense heap of slag seen rising almost from the oats. What a pity there is a coal-pit here where it is so pretty," said Clara. "Do you think so?" he answered. "You see, I am so used to it, I should miss it." Sons and Lovers

4. Outside the Sun Inn, where the original market place stood: "Mrs Morel loved her marketing. In the tiny market-place on the top of the hill, where four roads, from Nottingham and Derby, Ilkeston and Mansfield meet, many stalls were erected." Sons and Lovers

5. Outside butcher's shop, Nottingham Road: "The curtain was down... it represented a patchwork of local adverts. There was a fat porker and fat pork-pie, and the pig was saying 'You all know where to find me. Inside the crust at Frank Churchill's.'" The Lost Girl

6. At Machin and Hartwell shop, Nottingham Road: "Paul... crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op, and peeped in the reading room. Then he looked wistfully out of the window... The valley was full of corn, brightening in the sun." Sons and Lovers

7. At London House, Nottingham Road: "It was a vast square building - vast, that is, for Woodhouse - standing on the main street and highroad of the small but growing town." The Lost Girl

8. Nottingham Road/Albert Street junction: "The wide valley opened out from her, with the far woods withdrawing into twilight, and away in the centre the great pit streaming its white smoke and chuffing as the men were being tumed up." The Christening

9. Iceland frontage, Nottingham Road: "I liked our chapel, which was tall and full of light, and yet still; and colourwashed pale green and blue, with a bit of a lotus pattern. And over the organ-loft, '0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness', in big letters."Hymns in a Man's Life

10. Pippins fruit and veg shop, Nottingham Road: "Now Eastwood occupies a lovely position on a hilltop, with the steep slope towards Derbyshire and the long slope towards Nottingham." Nottingham and the Mining Country

11. Hollies frontage, Nottingham Road: "The string of coal-mines of B. W. & Co had been opened some sixty years before I was born and Eastwood had come into being as a consequence. It must have been a tiny village at the beginning of the nineteenth century, a small place of cottages..." Nottingham and the Mining Country

12. Nottingham Road/Queen's Road: "I was born nearly forty-four years ago, in Eastwood, a mining village of some three thousand souls, about eight miles from Nottingham, and one mile from the small stream, the Erewash, which divides Nottinghamshire from Derbyshire. It is hilly country ..." Nottingham and the Mining Country

13. Nottingham Road at a crossing point: "The church was away on the left, among black trees. The car slid on downhill, past the Miners Arms. It had already passed the Wellington, the Nelson, the Three Tuns and the Sun... and so, past a few new "villas", out into the blackened road between dark hedges and dark-green fields, towards Stack Gate." Lady Chatterley's Lover

14. Eastwood Library: "To me it seemed, and still seems, an extremely beautiful countryside, just between the red sandstone and the oak-trees of Nottingham and the cold limestone, the ash-trees, the stone fences of Derbyshire."Nottingham and the Mining Country.