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Lady Maud To The Rescue...

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

The Watnall Hall Photo Album - featuring Lady Maud's sketches & watercolours

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

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

Colourising Colonel Rolleston's dress uniform & medals

Lady Maud and the Kimberley Diamond Mine

Why did Watnall Hall host the scandalous Mrs.Atherton?

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

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

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

The Boer War memorial at The Forest

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

Is there an unexploded WW2 bomb under Stocks Road?

The cook, the footman, the yachting set and Sir Lancelot's binoculars

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

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

Joe Haywood and his pet fox

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

Lady Maud's father, his bloody bayoneting at Sebastopol and the Arboretum cannons