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?

Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

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

Murder, mayhem and a very small penis - the twisted history of Greasley Castle.