Short Walk – 15 March 2018

Biting winds, hard rain and muddy footpaths were a challenge accepted by a small group of intrepid ‘short walkers’. The walk started at ‘The Hole in the Wall’ in Underwood. This Inn is 300 years old and is named after a huge wall and gypsy encampment bombarded during the Civil War. We left Underwood following a track to New Brinsley and onto Brinsley before circling back to our starting point.

The area we covered has many connections to D. H. Lawrence and his family, one of his aunts lived in a white house to the left of the disused railway track which is now a footpath leading off to the Brinsley Colliery Headstocks which was the location for the mining disaster featured in the film of his novel ‘Sons and Lovers’. The photograph shows would-be film extras posing at the scene.
NEXT MONTH
The short walk is on Thursday April 19th, 2018 – details will be circulated.
David Rose/ Liz Edwards
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