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Lady Maud To The Rescue...

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

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

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 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

The Rollestons of Watnall, tales from the family tree…