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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

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

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

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

The Grounds and Garden of Watnall Hall

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

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

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…

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