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

on April 28, 2026

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

on April 14, 2026

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The Luddites pay a visit to Gilt Hill

on April 04, 2026

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Watnall Park - Severed bough of a thousand memories

on April 03, 2026

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