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The Watnall in Australia, its wild-west Aboriginal wars of the 1840s under "Sheriff" Rolleston and his link to Sydney Harbour Bridge

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1745 - Watnall's three close encounters with the invading Scottish Jacobites

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The Luddites pay a visit to Gilt Hill

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Severed bough of a thousand memories

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Lt. Sidney Rolleston, the Notts Naval cricket connection and his mysterious funeral

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Lady Maud's father, his bloody bayoneting at Sebastopol and the Arboretum cannons

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Lady Maud and the Kimberley Diamond Mine

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Mysterious DH Lawrence Windmill Watercolour

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Newstead's precious antique "grates" were from Watnall Hall

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Watnall's Bleak Midwinter Miners' Strike of 1908 - Colonel Rolleston steps in

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Eastwood's 1773 polar explorer - Mr. Benjamin Drawwater, Royal Navy surgeon and Captain Cook's life-saving medic

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The cook, the footman, the yachting set and Sir Lancelot's binoculars

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Nottingham's Grand Designs - building the Council House & how County Hall nearly had a huge tower

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Byron's Diana-like funeral procession to his Hucknall vault and the "Nottingham Goths"

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Greasley church's saddest grave? Double tragedy of Melicent Shaw, crushed to death at a public execution...

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Revived for Jan 2026 - Newstead's Pagan Plough Monday antics & "Byron-mania"

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An Olde Love Story - Sir Richard Bingham, the King's judge of Watnall and his love adjudication...

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Greasley's volunteer tree warden

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