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Lady Maud To The Rescue...

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

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

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 Grounds and Garden of Watnall Hall

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

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

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

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

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

Joe Haywood and his pet fox

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

The Rollestons of Watnall, tales from the family tree…

Mr. Levi Jackson and the Golden Wedding incident

The Boer War memorial at The Forest

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection