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Luftwaffe bombs coming here soon - air raids, Forty Bridges & the old wartime C8 bus between Ilkeston and Kimberley

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Pilgrim's progress - Kimberley's old Tithe Barn and how it funded pilgrims passing through the village

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RAF Hucknall's Polish pilot training school

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The Pentrich Rebellion - Captain Rolleston and the Nottingham Barracks

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The Boer War memorial at The Forest

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Phoenix from the flames, what inspired the art gallery at Nottingham Castle?

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Watnall Brickworks and its 4 iconic chimneys

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Death of a Test Pilot

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From the long lost library of Watnall Hall - an Age of Enlightenment gem

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The Nottingham miller from 1793 who helped shoot down Nazi V1 flying bombs...

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The old River Leen and its radical re-routing...

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What were "the leads" of Watnall Hall and why was the view so good?

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"Halt, who goes there?!" - who was guarding RAF Watnall in November 1940?

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Pre-war Watnall in colour

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Nuthall Temple lives on in Norfolk..

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Steam-powered traction engines at Watnall

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The Zeppelin air raid on Bennerley Viaduct - the bigger picture

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Eastwood's hilltop "DH Lawrence Memorial Hall" and other lost local legacies...

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Falling out of favour? The Queen's Head's old landlord and auctioneer

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Thomas Humber, the first bicycle in England and the Watnall Hall trike...

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A Walk Exploring the History of Hucknall Airfield

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"Flying Bedstead" pilot crashes onto B600 and into Watnall Hall's garden wall

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Summer daze - Churchill at Watnall - 2,000 people attend Watnall Hall's political picnic

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Wartime Watnall - a "secret bunker girl" explains what they did down there

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Does Watnall have a hidden Roman road?

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Watnall Troop cricket match - Mordecai, the mad Duke and Major Rolleston's promotion

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Lady Maud, wedding planner - the butler, the maid and the gardener's daughters

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The Vellum Bee Book of Watnall Hall

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The Watnall Woodman - a distant echo from olde Sherwood Forest

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