Tales from Watnall Hall

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

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

“The Greasley Engine” and other Giltbrook mining relics…

Using my DH Lawrence interactive "Map of World Travels" to plan a bike/walk tour of local Lawrence hot spots

Greasley Castle Revisited - what it looked like, why it was built and the dark deeds that happened there...

The 1632 Rampton tapestry map - Is the first Watnall Hall pictured on it?

Watnall Hall and ye olde Forest of Sherwood