flat fronted red brick house in Victoria Street"

That was DH Lawrence's description of this original mining cottage where he was born in 1885, the fourth child of Arthur and Lydia Lawrence.
This is the centenary of the publication of Sons and Lovers, and an ongoing festival in Eastwood is marking the event this month.
It has been inspiring to many that a miner's son could become one of the 20th Century's greatest authors, and Eastwood is rightly proud of its most famous citizen.