Bestwood

Miriam discontinued her practice of going each Thursday evening to the library in Bestwood.

Sons and Lovers 1913

To accommodate the regiments of miners, Carston, Waite and Co. built the Squares, great quadrangles of dwellings on the hillside of Bestwood, and then, in the brook valley, on the site of Hell Row, they erected the Bottoms.

Sons and Lovers 1913

All the life that Bestwood offered he enjoyed, from the sixpenny-hops down Church Street, to sports and billiards.

Sons and Lovers 1913

Miriam was his old friend, lover, and she belonged to Bestwood and home and his youth.

Sons and Lovers 1913

All along the road to Bestwood the miners tramped, wet and grey and dirty, but their red mouths talking with animation.

Sons and Lovers 1913

Therefore he was soon visiting and staying in houses of men who, in Bestwood, would have looked down on the unapproachable bank manager, and would merely have called indifferently on the Rector.

Sons and Lovers 1913

She stood in front of the ticket-office at Bestwood, and Paul watched her take from her purse the money for the tickets.

Sons and Lovers 1913

Either he went rabbiting in the woods, like a poacher, or he stayed in Nottingham all night instead of coming home, or he miscalculated his dive into the canal at Bestwood, and scored his chest into one mass of wounds on the raw stones and tins at the bottom.

Sons and Lovers 1913

This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp slope from Bestwood, and looked out, from the attic windows at least, on the slow climb of the valley towards Selby.

Sons and Lovers 1913

Most of the people of Bestwood considered that tea and bread-and-butter, and perhaps potted beef, was an they could afford to eat in Nottingham.

Sons and Lovers 1913