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

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

Mr. Levi Jackson and the Golden Wedding incident

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

The Grounds and Garden of Watnall Hall

Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

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

The Oldest Boy Scout in the World...

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

The ha-ha of Watnall Hall

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

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

The Vellum Bee Book of Watnall Hall

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…

Murder, mayhem and a very small penis - the twisted history of Greasley Castle.

Colonel Rolleston's Bee House

Wartime Watnall - Mary Harrison's wartime cartoons & ditties about life at RAF Watnall

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