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Description: | The Sun Inn is a pub and hotel dating back to 1750 which stands at the crossroads on the approach to Eastwood from the west. It is historically significant as the birthplace of the Midland Railway in 1832, when a meeting took place on the premises of local colliery owners, resulting in an agreement to build the railway, which served Nottingham, Derby and Leicester and resulted in the railway service to Eastwood. Local colliery owners contributed £32,000 towards the development of the railway. The first local passenger line ran between Derby and Nottingham and was finished in 1839. The meeting at the pub is commemorated on a plaque near the main entrance. The Sun Inn figured in the 'Pentrich Revolution' as a drinking place for dissatisfied violent mob of Pentritch Frame-knitting workers as they were marching on Nottingham in 1817. The inn was also used by the author D H Lawrence's father who often went in for a drink. Outside the Sun Inn was where the original market place stood: D H Lawrence wrote in his 'Sons and Lovers' '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.' | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | North East Midland Photographic Record | Source: | Picture the Past OAI feed | Creator: | North, Walter | Identifier: | http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/fronten... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | JPEG/IMAGE | Go to resource |
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