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The Luddites pay a visit to Gilt Hill

Newstead's precious antique "grates" of Watnall Hall

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

Stormy nights at Crow Hill's wuthering heights cottage

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

Nottingham’s first photographer & his help recreating the lost painting of Col Rolleston

The Pentrich Rebellion - Captain Rolleston and the Nottingham Barracks

Phoenix from the flames, what inspired the art gallery at Nottingham Castle?

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

Watnall Woods on old maps - The Slade & the old mining tramways

Watnall's Sherlock Holmes, the Luddites and the prank that brought down the ancient gallows...

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

Biography of Colonel Lancelot Rolleston MP (1785-1862)

Colonel Rolleston and the Battle of Mapperley Hills

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…

The Lost Fortune of the Rollestons, Lords of the Manor on a Shoestring…

"To the castle!" - the Nottingham riots of 1831

Capt. Rolleston's tragedy and the burning of Nottingham Castle

Mr. Rolleston and the Pentrich Rebellion