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

on January 06, 2026

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

on January 03, 2026

Colwick Hall execution graves Greasley church kimberley

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

on December 31, 2025

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

on December 30, 2025

Bingham Watnall Hall

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Greasley's volunteer tree warden

on November 24, 2025

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Watnall Pit - life and death of a 9-year-old pony driver

on November 22, 2025

DH Lawrence infant schools mining

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Sunny days at Crow Hill cottage with Bogend school's new teacher

on November 16, 2025

Christopher Rolleston DH Lawrence Frances Rolleston infant schools Lancelot 6 slavery Watnall Hall

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Stormy nights at Crow Hill's wuthering heights cottage

on November 14, 2025

Christopher Rolleston Frances Rolleston infant schools Lancelot 6 slavery

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Robin's tale - when a young housemaid fell pregnant in 1913...

on November 12, 2025

graves Greasley church Lady Maud Watnall Hall WI

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Double-divorce scandal - the Colonel's dodgy daughters dragged through in the Victorian tabloids

on November 11, 2025

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Watnall's smallpox hospital and the revolutionary pox-scarred beauty

on November 05, 2025

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The Nazi chapel in Swanwick and "The One That Got Away"

on November 02, 2025

hucknall RAF wartime watnall

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The scholarly history of the "County Battery" shop in Nuthall & other local "Institutes"

on October 30, 2025

Lady Maud Nuthall Temple trams Watnall Hall WI

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Young love or arranged? - Lady Maud and Lancelot Rolleston get engaged

on October 28, 2025

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Halloween special - the murder at Shilo Hall

on October 27, 2025

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Goose Fair and the Lace Market's on fire...

on October 01, 2025

DH Lawrence goose fair Nottingham castle Riot Act

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Nottingham’s first photographer & his help recreating the lost painting of Col Rolleston

on September 22, 2025

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Beauvale Priory - its original purpose, brutal end & little-known offshoot in Coventry

on September 13, 2025

Beauvale Priory Cantelupe Greasley Castle

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The Watnall Riot of 1893

on September 09, 2025

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The Watnall Hall Photo Album - featuring Lady Maud's sketches & watercolours

on August 07, 2025

Boer War Lady Maud Lancelot 7 South Africa

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