Tales from Watnall Hall

Royalty, the Rollestons and the miner's cottage...

Walking (or biking) tour of local DH Lawrence hot spots (using my interactive "Map of DHL's World Travels")

Rolleston the huntsman, in a poetic account of a classic 30-mile Notts foxhunt in 1881

Greasley Castle Revisited - what it looked like, why it was built and the dark deeds that happened there...

Epic poem to save the South Notts Hussars Band

The Flying Column - Capt. Rolleston & Sgt-Major Pilbeam on manoeuvres

Tales from the Boer War, "Colonel Rolleston is seriously wounded..."

Spooky connections - The grave of Sgt-Major Pilbeam and the graffiti-carved tree

Colourising Colonel Rolleston's dress uniform & medals

Colonel Sir Lancelot Rolleston - 175th birthday commemoration

The Viking Mural at the Council House

Elizabethan rock 'n' roll - shred that lute baby!

The 1632 Rampton tapestry map - Is the first Watnall Hall pictured on it?

The day the Vikings sailed to Nottingham…

Queen Elizabeth's double agent...was Anthony Rolleston the Elizabethan James Bond?

Watnall in Tudor times...what was it like?