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"Kimberley - The village where I've lived for 70 years" (1909 to 1979) by Phyllis Drew

The Dangerous Brothers - mountain-top deaths of the Mallorys - RAF Watnall's boss and his Everest pioneering brother

Under threat - RAF Watnall's secret bunker and its restored twin caught on video

RAF Watnall's pop-up wartime "swimming pool" and naked WW2 ace Dizzy Allen

Watnall Hall - the Norway connection

Sex, drugs and RAF Watnall - the comforts of love, beer and benzedrine wakey-wakey pills...

The Nazi chapel in Swanwick and "The One That Got Away"

Is there an unexploded WW2 bomb under Stocks Road?

RAF Hucknall's Polish pilot training school

Death of a Test Pilot

The Nottingham miller from 1793 who helped shoot down Nazi V1 flying bombs...

"Halt, who goes there?!" - who was guarding RAF Watnall during the Battle of Britain in August 1940?

The Zeppelin air raid on Bennerley Viaduct - the bigger picture

A Walk Exploring the History of Hucknall Airfield

"Flying Bedstead" pilot crashes onto B600 and into Watnall Hall's garden wall

Wartime Watnall - a "secret bunker girl" explains what they did down there

Wartime Watnall - What was it like being a civilian in WW2 Watnall?

Wartime Watnall - Cold War National Service memories

Wartime Watnall - Mary Harrison's wartime cartoons & ditties about life at RAF Watnall

Wartime Watnall - On Battle of Britain Day we celebrate Watnall's own "few"