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"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

Does Watnall have a hidden Roman road?

Watnall Troop cricket match - Mordecai, the mad Duke and Major Rolleston's promotion

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

The Vellum Bee Book of Watnall Hall

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

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

Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

Bringing Colonel Rolleston back to life!

The old Watnall Reservoir and the Derwent Valley Aqueduct

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

The lost medieval tithe barn of Watnall Hall

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

Rolleston the huntsman, in a poetic account of a classic 30-mile Notts foxhunt in 1881