Tales from Watnall Hall

Royalty, the Rollestons and the miner's cottage...

Using my DH Lawrence interactive "Map of World Travels" to plan a bike/walk tour of local Lawrence hot spots

Rolleston the huntsman, in a poetic account of a classic 30-mile Notts foxhunt in 1881

Greasley Castle Revisited - what it looked like, why it was built and the dark deeds that happened there...

Epic poem to save the South Notts Hussars Band

The Flying Column - Capt. Rolleston & Sgt-Major Pilbeam on manoeuvres

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

Spooky connections - The grave of Sgt-Major Pilbeam and the graffiti-carved tree

Colourising Colonel Rolleston's dress uniform & medals

Colonel Sir Lancelot Rolleston - 175th birthday commemoration

The Viking Mural at the Council House

Elizabethan rock 'n' roll - shred that lute baby!

The 1632 Rampton tapestry map - Is the first Watnall Hall pictured on it?

The day the Vikings sailed to Nottingham…

Queen Elizabeth's double agent...was Anthony Rolleston the Elizabethan James Bond?

Watnall in Tudor times...what was it like?

Robert Rolleston and the pirates of the Caribbean

Biography of Colonel Lancelot Rolleston MP (1785-1862)

Watnall Hall and ye olde Forest of Sherwood

Colonel Rolleston and the Battle of Mapperley Hills

The Rollestons of Watnall, tales from the family tree…

Great War - The fallen sons of Annesley Hall

Trooper Clark’s amazing swordsmanship prize…

The Watnall Hall graves - who is buried there?

Lancelot Rolleston, the schoolboy squire - his formative years…

The Lost Fortune of the Rollestons, Lords of the Manor on a Shoestring…

Polly Redcap and Sledder Woods

The Oldest Boy Scout in the World...

Mr. Levi Jackson and the Golden Wedding incident

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

The mystery of the Watnall Hall gates

The Grounds and Garden of Watnall Hall

Greasley Castle - what did it look like?

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

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

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

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

Mr. Rolleston and the Pentrich Rebellion

Origins of the “Watnall Troop” of the South Notts Yeomanry

Joe Haywood and his pet fox

Mr. Freeman, the gamekeeper

Colonel Rolleston's Bee House

Digital version of "Watnall Hall & the Rolleston Family" by RA Horton 2000