Tales from Watnall Hall

Watnall Brickworks and its 4 iconic chimneys

Death of a Test Pilot

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

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

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

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

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

Pre-war Watnall in colour

Steam-powered traction engines at Watnall

The Zeppelin air raid on Bennerley Viaduct - the bigger picture

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

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

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

A Walk Exploring the History of Hucknall Airfield

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

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

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

Does Watnall have a hidden Roman road?

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

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

The Vellum Bee Book of Watnall Hall

The Watnall Woodman - a distant echo from olde Sherwood Forest

The fate of Watnall Hall and the 1954 auction

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

The ha-ha of Watnall Hall

Watnall pebbles and their remarkable time travels...

Watnall Woods on old maps - The Slade & the old mining tramways

Fontana Vecchia - spirit of DHL lingers at his old Sicilian villa (and a werewolf)

Brinsley Headstocks - the final cut, conservation by chainsaw