Tales from Watnall Hall

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

Lady Maud and the Kimberley Diamond Mine

Mysterious DH Lawrence Windmill Watercolour

Newstead's precious antique "grates" of Watnall Hall

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

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

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

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

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

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