Lawrence Sites in Eastwood: Lynncroft, the Canyons, and Walker Street

 After seeing Breach House on Garden Road, I followed the blue line on the pavement:

Uphill to the fourth Lawrence family home in Eastwood, Lynncroft, where the family lived between 1905 and 1911:

This property looked pretty run down, but as the Blue Line Trail leaflet explains, at the Lawrence family's time of ownership, it represented some kind of "success ... in their constant struggle for social and material improvement".

I found the accompanying information post for Lynncroft across the road and a bit down the street,  almost covered in leaves:

 

The Blue Line Trail reveals that Lawrence's mother, Lydia, died at Lynncroft in 1910 when Lawrence was in his mid-20s, leaving him with a huge gap in his life.

After Lynncroft, I turned into Walker Street to find the Canyons playground of Lawrence's childhood:

The Blue Line Trail leaflet explains that in "Lawrence's day, the undulating land here was the source of clay for the Lynncroft Pottery", being known locally as the Canyons. 

Alongside this, the "Mellor family ... who built the house on Walker Street where the Lawrence family lived" between 1891 and 1905 (during Lawrence's childhood, youth, and early adulthood), "owned the nearby pottery".

Very near to the Canyons, I think I found (part of) the famous view (or now 'view') of the Eastwood countryside that Lawrence is known to have loved so much:

Near this wanton destruction, I saw several pages of protest accompanying the signpost that gave information about Lawrence's favourite view in Eastwood:

The protest pages were written on behalf of badgers and foxes who simply asked why insentient humans were destroying their natural habitat (and Lawrence's beloved view), when they didn't unduly bother any humans:

I spoke to a man near the apocalyptic spot, he was upset about no longer being able to take his dog for long walks in the area.

Yeah, the wanton destruction of this urban green spot really p*ssed me off, too.

Still, I think I got to see the block of houses on Walker Street where the Lawrence family lived for 14 years up to 1915:

But I'm not sure if I located the exact house or not:

Because I couldn't see any signpost giving information about it.

Finally, the Blue Line Trail leaflet reveals that it was at the Walker Street house that Lawrence's "brother Ernest died" in 1901, with the death deeply affecting the Lawrence family, "especially Mrs Lawrence, who transferred her hopes and dreams to her youngest son, Bert" who was now 16 or so.