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

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Do you know Smiley, the friendly Watnall ghost?

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

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

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

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

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Watnall's turnpike road - how remote-feeling was Watnall back in the olden days?

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Dating DH Lawrence's story "A Fragment of Stained Glass" to precisely 1538-39

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Sept 11th 1926 - DH Lawrence celebrates birthday in the exotic Far East (that's Mablethorpe to you and me!) before his final visit to Eastwood

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Scanning Lady Maud Rolleston's well-travelled sketchbook from c.1900

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Under threat - RAF Watnall's secret bunker and its restored twin caught on video

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RAF Watnall's pop-up wartime "swimming pool" and naked WW2 ace Dizzy Allen

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Watnall Hall - the Norway connection

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Lord Byron the boxer - his road rage incident in Venice

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The lost local watering holes of Robin Hood and Mellors, the gamekeeper of Lady Chatterley...

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