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Steam-powered traction engines at Watnall

Does Watnall have a hidden Roman road?

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

Brinsley Headstocks - the final cut, conservation by chainsaw

"DH Lawrence - The truth about a banned genius" - Picture Post magazine visits Eastwood in 1955

The Watnall Alps - ski-ing on a slagheap anyone?

True or False? - The "40 Bridges" Giltbrook viaduct had more arches on one side than the other

“The Greasley Engine” and other Giltbrook mining relics…

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…