IS NOW CLOSED
home to Miss Jessie Chambers , the farmer's daughter who became
the "Miriam" of D.H.Lawrence's novel "Sons and Lovers".
The small secluded farmhouse is on sloping field three miles north of the town of Eastwood .
Today , as for many years now , the famous old farmhouse stands unoccupied and decaying .
The Haggs Farm Preservation Society was established to ensure the preservation of Haggs Farm .
Through the years the Society has urged local authorities and the farm's owners to properly
maintain and restore the Grade 2 Listed Building and has researched and recorded
much of the history of the farm ,its buildings , setting , owners and tenants .
Due to the now seriously declined world-wide and national and financial circumstances
it is unlikely that private or public monies will become available for a venture
such as Haggs Farm's renovation : and observing the general public's ( at best )
lack of interest in D.H.Lawrence or the Haggs Farm , it is most unlikely
that the society's prime objective can be realised in the forseeable future .
Special Acknowledgment . . . .
This website wishes to express its particular and sincere thanks
to founding members of the society . Anne Howard ( a niece of Jessie Chambers )
and its chairman , Mr.Clive Leivers ( the Chairman ) - for
their long years of unstinting , ever hopeful , efforts to the Haggs Farm cause .
Sincere thanks to all who have visited this website .
