Tales from Watnall Hall

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

The fate of Watnall Hall and the 1954 auction

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"

The Rolleston's & the first subterranean ball at Welbeck Abbey

Wartime Watnall - when the young heiress of Watnall Hall served at RAF Watnall

Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

Mrs. Alice Saxton of the Watnall WI and her illicit flower picking!

DH Lawrence - anyone for herbal beer?

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

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

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...

Tales from the Boer War, "Colonel Rolleston is seriously wounded..."

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

Queen Elizabeth's double agent...was Anthony Rolleston the Elizabethan James Bond?

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

Life of Lady Maud, the “delinquent” cyclist and other tales…