Tales from Watnall Hall

What were "the leads" of Watnall Hall and why was the view so good?

"Flying Bedstead" pilot crashes onto B600 and into Watnall Hall's garden wall

Summer daze - Churchill at Watnall - 2,000 people attend Watnall Hall's political picnic

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

The fate of Watnall Hall and the 1954 auction

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

The ha-ha of Watnall Hall

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

Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

Mrs. Alice Saxton of the Watnall WI and her illicit flower picking!

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

The lost medieval tithe barn of Watnall Hall

Royalty, the Rollestons and the miner's cottage...

Tales from the Boer War, "Colonel Rolleston is seriously wounded..."

Colourising Colonel Rolleston's dress uniform & medals

Colonel Sir Lancelot Rolleston - 175th birthday commemoration

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

The Oldest Boy Scout in the World...