Tales from Watnall Hall

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

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

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

Mysterious DH Lawrence Windmill Watercolour

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

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

Sunny days at Bogend School with new teacher, Miss Frances Rolleston

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

The Old Windmills of Kimberley

International Man of Mystery - the vicar of Greasley, Rodolph Baron von Hube, we search for the truth...

Watnall Brickworks and its four (or five?) iconic chimneys

The Zeppelin air raid on Bennerley Viaduct - the bigger picture

Eastwood's hilltop "DH Lawrence Memorial Hall" and other lost local legacies...

Lady Maud, wedding planner - the butler, the maid and the gardener's daughters

Fontana Vecchia - spirit of DHL lingers at his old Sicilian villa (and a werewolf)

Brinsley Headstocks - the final cut, conservation by chainsaw

"DH Lawrence - The truth about a banned genius" - Picture Post magazine visits Eastwood in 1955

DH Lawrence - the Kiowa ranch cookbook...