REVEALING " HAGGS FARM IN PICTURES " - HAGGS FARM , UNDERWOOD,NEAR EASTWOOD,NOTTS

REVEALING " HAGGS FARM IN PICTURES " - HAGGS FARM , UNDERWOOD,NEAR EASTWOOD,NOTTS Haggs Farm,Underwood,Photographs Donated by Various Owners

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Haggs Farm is certainly quite an unknown place. However , as the fictional " Willey farm " of the D.H.Lawrence novel " Sons and Lovers "
it has always attracted interest , which makes its obscurity surprising . Accessed by a long sloping track , Haggs Farm stands in a lovely
secluded setting in a corner of woodland sheltered from the worst blasts of the English midlands' weather. An estate agent might well enthusiastically describe it as a property with " wonderful investment potential ". Unfortunately , since 1966 it has been a very
neglected Grade 2 listed building and has gradually declined so much that it is now something akin to a ruin .

The Haggs as its tenants and such visitors as D.H.Lawrence once knew it .
The " New Haggs " house is to the left of the picture and the much older original farm buildings of Haggs Farm
are at the centre and right . The photograph was taken in 1971 by a Japanese visitor .

The 1971 Barker Pictures .

HAGGS FARM , UNDERWOOD

PICTURE NUMBER 1 [Barker]
Above : The Haggs pictured from a point
close by the gate to the field immediately
above the building .

PICTURE NUMBER 2 [Barker]
The farmstead house viewed from its
western Willey Wood side .

PICTURE NUMBER 3 [Barker]
Aspect 3 of the farmstead as viewed from its western Willey Wood side .The picture shows a farm worker standing near the stable door . Above the stable are bedrooms .The far right room was used by Miss Jessie Chambers . It is mentioned by D.H.Lawrence in Sons and Lovers : note the quoted text at the right of this webpage .

PICTURE NUMBER 4 [Barker]
The eastern side of the farmstead -
farm outbuildings - formerly used for chicken rearing .

PICTURE NUMBER 5 [Barker]
Another eastern aspect of the farmstead -
the low building is the " Dairy Scullery "
once a vital part of the farm's economy .

PICTURE NUMBER 6 [Barker]
The New Haggs House
viewed from its southern side .

Please Scroll this text . The Haggs Farm Preservation Society has much appreciated the photographs recently donated to it in 2006 by Mr.Anthony Barker of Canada .Taken in August and September of 1971 they show features of both the western and eastern sides of the Haggs buildings.As very few pictuures of the Haggs eastern side exist,Mr.Barker's photographs are most valuable. The Barker pictures were taken when the Haggs Farm buildings were intact and therefor still distinctly the place that D.H.Lawrence had known as a young man and that he was able to so vividly recall throughout his intensely lived but short life. In 1971 the old farms'living quarters were unoccupied ,however its outbuidings still served a useful if limited farming purpose. Concerning the Barker Picture No. 3 and the bedroom over the stable that was Jessie Chambers : note the following extract from D.H.Lawrence's " Sons and Lovers " [published 1913 - the Copyright Of William Heinemanne Ltd . ] Chapter - LAD-AND-GIRL LOVE ". . . . Paul was now pale with weariness. He had been responsible for the party all day , and now he was done. Miriam understood, and kept close to him , and he left himself in her hands .They had an hour to wait at Ambergate Station.Trains came,crowded with excursionists returning to Manchester, Birmingham , and London ." We might be going there � folk easily might think we're going that far," said Paul. They got back rather late . Miriam, walking home with Geoffrey, watched the moon rise big and red and misty. She felt something was fulfilled in her . She had an elder sister ,Agatha, who was a school-teacher. Between the two girls was a feud. Miriam considered Agatha worldly . And she wanted herself to be a school-teacher. One Saturday afternoon Agatha and Miriam were upstairs dressing. Their bedroom was over the stable. It was a low room, not very large, and bare. Miriam had nailed on the wall a reproduction of Veronese's " St. Catherine ".She loved the woman who sat in the window, dreaming. Her own windows were too small to sit in. But the front one was dripped over with honeysuckle and Virginia creeper , and looked upon the tree-tops of the oak-wood across the yard, while the little back window , no bigger than a handkerchief, was a loophole to the east, to the dawn beating up against the beloved round hills.The two sisters did not talk much to each other. Agatha, who was fair and small and determined, had rebelled against the home atmosphere, against the doctrine of "the other cheek". She was out in the world now, in a fair way to be independent. And she insisted on worldly values, on appearance, on manners, on position, which Miriam would fain have ignored. Both girls liked to be upstairs, out of the way, when Paul came.They preferred to come running down , open the stair-foot door, and see him watching , expectant of them . . . . " Please note that our " Haggs In Pictures " pages are periodically revised and also that due to webspace limitations it is impossible to display all "Haggs In Pictures" material in the large dimensional format that we would ideally desire . All the pictures on this website may be freely copied for none commercial purposes . Further text is to be added.

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A unique Photograph By the Writer Glyn Hughes .
When the writer visited Haggs Farm in 1958 he took several photographs of which the above picture is one .
The above photograph is of the barn that stood at the southermost very bottom of the Haggs Farm complex .
A little more than five decades before , having walked along the old field pathway from Hunts Hill and
through a shielding band of woodland , the young D.H.Lawrence would have emerged to see the
barn directly at his front .The barn was demolished at an unknown date prior to 1984 .
( Mr . Hughes strictly reserves his picture's commercial copyright .)

Above : Haggs Farm circa 1952 .

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