Bert's Town - Supplementary Images
w/e 27 September 2009

When the possibility of closure was mentioned in February 2009, this image below was one of the first I captured on a cold bleak day as I began the series about Bert's Town. This is Durban House in Eastwood and with the weather being as it was , it could quite easily have been Bleak House - but's that's a different author entirely. It's perhaps worth repeating here the quotation that appears on the first plaque that is situated nearby on the Literary Trail: "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." from Sons and Lovers.

© Broxtowe Borough Council Apart from the title panel and the first image of Durban House, all the other images on this page of the internal views of the Heritage Centre have been kindly supplied by Sally Nightingale, Cultural Services Manager for Broxtowe Borough Council and are reproduced with her permission. The copyright for these images of course remains with the Council.

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