Tales from Watnall Hall

Watnall Brickworks and its four (or five?) iconic chimneys

Death of a Test Pilot

From the long lost library of Watnall Hall - an Age of Enlightenment gem

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

The old River Leen and its radical re-routing...

What were "the leads" of Watnall Hall and why was the view so good?

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

Pre-war Watnall in colour

Steam-powered traction engines at Watnall

The Zeppelin air raid on Bennerley Viaduct - the bigger picture

Eastwood's hilltop "DH Lawrence Memorial Hall" and other lost local legacies...

Falling out of favour? The Queen's Head's old landlord and auctioneer

Thomas Humber, the first bicycle in England and the Watnall Hall trike...

A Walk Exploring the History of Hucknall Airfield

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

Summer daze - Churchill at Watnall - 2,000 people attend Watnall Hall's political picnic

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

Does Watnall have a hidden Roman road?

Watnall Troop cricket match - Mordecai, the mad Duke and Major Rolleston's promotion

Lady Maud, wedding planner - the butler, the maid and the gardener's daughters

The Vellum Bee Book of Watnall Hall

The Watnall Woodman - a distant echo from olde Sherwood Forest

The fate of Watnall Hall and the 1954 auction

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

The ha-ha of Watnall Park

Watnall pebbles and their remarkable time travels...

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

Fontana Vecchia - spirit of DHL lingers at his old Sicilian villa (and a werewolf)

Brinsley Headstocks - the final cut, conservation by chainsaw

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

DH Lawrence - the Kiowa ranch cookbook...

DH Lawrence - what did he sound like?

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"

Wartime Watnall - what's left of the secret bunkers & why was the phone bill £44 million a year?

Lose that belly and get fit - how I did it...

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

Versions of Lawrence - his Ripley Rattlers colour change and is life now imitating his art?

The Old Steam Mill of Watnall

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

Beauvale School 1889 - Grand dinner honouring Major Rolleston as he vacates Watnall Hall

Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

Wartime Watnall - An "American" Spitfire over RAF Watnall? Ya betta believe it buddy!