Tales from Watnall Hall

The Old Windmills of Kimberley

Kimberley's old watermill - natural springs, steam railways and watercress beds

The Old Steam Mill of Watnall

The old River Leen and its radical re-routing...

The Nottingham miller from 1793 who helped shoot down Nazi V1 flying bombs...

Steam-powered traction engines at Watnall

Walking (or biking) tour of local DH Lawrence hot spots (using my interactive "Map of DHL's World Travels")

The old Watnall Reservoir and the Derwent Valley Aqueduct

"To the castle!" - the Nottingham riots of 1831

“The Greasley Engine” and other Giltbrook mining relics…

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

Biography of Colonel Lancelot Rolleston MP (1785-1862)

Nottingham’s first photographer and his help recreating the lost painting of Colonel Rolleston

The Watnall Woodman - a distant echo from olde Sherwood Forest

Watnall Hall and ye olde Forest of Sherwood

The Vellum Bee Book of Watnall Hall

Falling out of favour? The Queen's Head's old landlord and auctioneer

Eastwood's hilltop "DH Lawrence Memorial Hall" and other lost local legacies...

Capt. Rolleston's tragedy and the burning of Nottingham Castle