Tales from Watnall Hall

The Oath(s) of the Sheriff(s) Of Nottingham

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

DH Lawrence - anyone for herbal beer?

Watnall's Sherlock Holmes and the prank that brought down the ancient gallows...

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

The Tradition of Coronation Bonfires

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

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

Bringing Colonel Rolleston back to life!

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

The old Watnall Reservoir and the Derwent Valley Aqueduct

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

“The Greasley Engine” and other Giltbrook mining relics…

The lost medieval tithe barn of Watnall Hall

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

Rolleston the huntsman, in a poetic account of a classic 30-mile Notts foxhunt in 1881

Greasley Castle Revisited - what it looked like, why it was built and the dark deeds that happened there...

Epic poem to save the South Notts Hussars Band

The Flying Column - Capt. Rolleston & Sgt-Major Pilbeam on manoeuvres

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

Spooky connections - The grave of Sgt-Major Pilbeam and the graffiti-carved tree

Colourising Colonel Rolleston's dress uniform & medals

Colonel Sir Lancelot Rolleston - 175th birthday commemoration

The Viking Mural at the Council House

Elizabethan rock 'n' roll - shred that lute baby!

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

The day the Vikings sailed to Nottingham…

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

Watnall in Tudor times...what was it like?

Robert Rolleston and the pirates of the Caribbean

Biography of Colonel Lancelot Rolleston MP (1785-1862)

Watnall Hall and ye olde Forest of Sherwood

Colonel Rolleston and the Battle of Mapperley Hills

The Rollestons of Watnall, tales from the family tree…

Great War - The fallen sons of Annesley Hall

Trooper Clark’s amazing swordsmanship prize…

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…

The Lost Fortune of the Rollestons, Lords of the Manor on a Shoestring…

Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

The Oldest Boy Scout in the World...

Mr. Levi Jackson and the Golden Wedding incident

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

The mystery of the Watnall Hall gates

The Grounds and Garden of Watnall Hall