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Tales from Watnall Hall

There's still a lot of respect and interest about old squire Rolleston and his family in the Watnall area. This blog hopes to keep their memory alive by recalling old tales and researching new ones from Watnall Hall and hereabouts. These tales can be simple parochial snippets of country life or lead us down rabbit holes to surprising places, world events and famous people from the transatlantic slave trade to infant school pioneering.... be kind, be curious...

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"Kimberley - The village where I've lived for 70 years" (1909 to 1979) by Phyllis Drew

on October 25, 2026

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Do you know Smiley, the friendly Watnall ghost?

on October 24, 2026

cook ghost story Watnall Hall

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"Griseleia In Snotinghscire" - searchable copy of Greasley vicar's classic history book

on October 13, 2026

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Watnall's official "Feast Day" has fallen out of use

on October 04, 2026

Beauvale Priory Cantelupe Greasley Castle St Thomas Cantilupe

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The Dangerous Brothers - mountain-top deaths of the Mallorys - RAF Watnall's boss and his Everest pioneering brother

on October 01, 2026

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"Skinner" Hancox - Watnall's Waterloo hero and Col Rolleston's son-in-law

on September 29, 2026

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