Tales from Watnall Hall

Lady Maud's father, his bloody bayonet battles 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...

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

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

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

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

Stormy nights at Crow Hill's wuthering heights cottage

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

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

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