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Do you know Smiley, the friendly Watnall ghost?

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"Griseleia In Snotinghscire" - searchable copy of Greasley vicar's classic history book

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Dating DH Lawrence's story "A Fragment of Stained Glass" to precisely 1538-39

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Sept 11th 1926 - DH Lawrence celebrates birthday in the exotic Far East (that's Mablethorpe to you and me!) before his final visit to Eastwood

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Scanning Lady Maud Rolleston's well-travelled sketchbook from c.1900

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The lost local watering holes of Robin Hood and Mellors, the gamekeeper of Lady Chatterley...

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Newstead's precious antique "grates" were from Watnall Hall

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The cook, the footman, the yachting set and Sir Lancelot's binoculars

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An Olde Love Story - Sir Richard Bingham, the King's judge of Watnall and his love adjudication...

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Sunny days at Bogend School with new teacher, Miss Frances Rolleston

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Robin's tale - when a young housemaid fell pregnant in 1913...

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The scholarly history of the "County Battery" shop in Nuthall & other local "Institutes"

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The Watnall Hall Photo Album - featuring Lady Maud's sketches & watercolours

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Why did Watnall Hall host the scandalous Mrs.Atherton?

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Kimberley's old village stocks (and the schoolboys locked up in them!)

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Pilgrim's progress - Kimberley's old Tithe Barn and how it funded pilgrims passing through the village

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

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