Local Boy
The urban council of Eastwood in Nottinghamshire hav1 according to The Times, drawn up plans for the erection o a memorial to D. H. Lawrence; this will take the form of concert-hall and a swimming bath, to be sited half a mile froni Lawrence's birthplace. The estimated cost is £200,000. There seems to me to be something both arbitrary and incongruoue about this project, and the fact that the D. H. LawrencO appeal committee' are to be asked for their support slightly suggests that the idea of building a swimming bath came first, that someone remembered that Lawrence had been born nearby and that the possibility of partly subsidising the scheme with voluntary donations from outside then presented itself in glowing colours to the urban council. I may be doing then} an injustice, but, even if I am, I doubt whether those who hold Lawrence's memory most dear will think this the mot appropriate way in which to honour it. Lawrence's last visit to Eastwood produced only one comment which has survived, I hate the damned place,' he said. ST01/1
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