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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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Down the Pit - the 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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Goose Fair and the Lace Market's on fire...

on October 01, 2025

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The Old Windmills of Kimberley

on August 03, 2025

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

on June 26, 2025

DH Lawrence Greasley church Lancelot 7 South Africa von Hube

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

on December 09, 2024

DH Lawrence mining railways

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The Zeppelin air raid on Bennerley Viaduct - the bigger picture

on June 18, 2024

DH Lawrence The Great War war wartime watnall

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

on May 29, 2024

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

on March 04, 2024

DH Lawrence Lady Maud Lancelot 7 servants von Hube Watnall Hall

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

on January 20, 2024

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Brinsley Headstocks - the final cut, conservation by chainsaw

on January 12, 2024

DH Lawrence mining

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

on January 10, 2024

DH Lawrence mining

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DH Lawrence - the Kiowa ranch cookbook...

on November 22, 2023

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DH Lawrence - what did he sound like?

on October 12, 2023

DH Lawrence Ottoline Morrell

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The Rolleston's & the first subterranean ball at Welbeck Abbey

on September 01, 2023

DH Lawrence fox hunting Lady Maud Lancelot 7 Ottoline Morrell women

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Versions of Lawrence - his Ripley Rattlers colour change and is life now imitating his art?

on August 29, 2023

DH Lawrence rattlers ripley trams

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Beauvale School 1889 - Grand dinner honouring Major Rolleston as he vacates Watnall Hall

on August 21, 2023

DH Lawrence fox hunting Lancelot 7

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DH Lawrence - anyone for herbal beer?

on June 29, 2023

DH Lawrence railways women

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Walking (or biking) tour of local DH Lawrence hot spots (using my interactive "Map of DHL's World Travels")

on August 31, 2022

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