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"GRISELEIA IN SNOTINGHSCIRE" - searchable copy of Greasley vicar's classic history book

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Watnall Hall - the Norway connection

Lord Byron the boxer - his road rage incident in Venice

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

Sex, drugs and RAF Watnall - the comforts of love, beer and benzedrine wakey-wakey pills...

Watnall Solar Farm - A short walk from coal to solar, how far have we come?...

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

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

The Luddites pay a visit to Gilt Hill

Watnall Park - Severed bough of a thousand memories

Lt. Sidney Rolleston, the Notts Naval cricket connection and his mysterious Watnall funeral