Eastwood Council designed and funded the project in partnership with Nottinghamshire Council, which provided some funding through the LIS scheme and Broxtowe Council’s United Kingdom Shared Prospoerity Fund (UKSPF) funding.
The signs illustrate the local heritage of Eastwood.
Each features, world-renowned author and artist DH Lawrence, who placed Eastwood on the worldwide map.
Also depicted is the Midland Railway launched in 1844 – originally formed at a meeting which took place at The Sun Inn, Eastwood in 1832 attended by local dignitaries.
The new railway was merged from the Midland Counties, the Birmingham and Derby Junction and the North Midland.
The signs also illustrate the beautiful countryside of the area that was eternally recorded in Lawrence’s writings – The Country of my Heart.
And the signs also pay tribute to the mining industry, which played a significant role in the history of Eastwood, with Moorgreen Colliery opening in 1868 and providing employment for thousands of people.
Coal mined in Eastwood was transported all over the country, including London and the power for factories, heating for homes and businesses and fuelled locomotives.
The war memorials in Eastwood at Plumptre Way and Edward Road were also all recently restored by tje town council, with grant support from Broxtowe Council, in time for the recent Rembrance weekend events which saw thousands turn out to remember the fallen across towns and villages across Broxtowe and Ashfield, including in Eastwood, Kimberley, Selston, Jacksdale, Underwood, Brinsley and Greasley.