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Tales from Watnall Hall

There's still a lot of respect and interest about old squire Rolleston and his family in the Watnall area. This blog hopes to keep their memory alive by recalling old tales and researching new ones from Watnall Hall and hereabouts. These tales can be simple parochial snippets of country life or lead us down rabbit holes to surprising places, world events and famous people from the transatlantic slave trade to infant school pioneering.... be kind, be curious...

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

on August 07, 2025

Boer War Lady Maud Lancelot 7 South Africa Watnall Hall

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

on March 04, 2024

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

on July 24, 2021

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Scanning Lady Maud Rolleston's well-travelled sketchbook from c.1900

on September 09, 2026

Boer War Lady Maud Watnall Hall Wellow

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Mr. Levi Jackson and the Golden Wedding incident

on August 02, 2021

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Lady Maud To The Rescue...

on June 05, 2023

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Young love or arranged? - Lady Maud and Lancelot Rolleston get engaged

on October 28, 2025

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Lady Maud and the Kimberley Diamond Mine

on February 20, 2026

Boer War Lady Maud mining

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Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

on August 19, 2023

Lady Maud Lancelot 7 RAF Watnall Hall women

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The Grounds and Garden of Watnall Hall

on July 19, 2021

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Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

on October 13, 2021

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Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

on March 09, 2023

Annesley Hall Chaworth-Musters dog Lady Maud Lancelot 7 Maps salmon fishing trams

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

on July 22, 2023

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The Oldest Boy Scout in the World...

on October 12, 2021

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To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

on February 14, 2024

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The ha-ha of Watnall Park

on February 12, 2024

Lady Maud Lancelot 7 Watnall Hall

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The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

on November 09, 2021

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Sex, drugs and RAF Watnall - the comforts of love, beer and benzedrine wakey-wakey pills...

on June 03, 2026

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Why did Watnall Hall host the scandalous Mrs.Atherton?

on July 08, 2025

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Watnall Hall, Upstairs and Downstairs – Some of the servant’s tales…

on July 10, 2021

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