Tales from Watnall Hall

The Watnall Woodman - a distant echo from olde Sherwood Forest

The fate of Watnall Hall and the 1954 auction

To Let - Who else has lived at Watnall Hall?

The ha-ha of Watnall Hall

Watnall pebbles and their remarkable time travels...

Watnall Woods on old maps - The Slade & the old mining tramways

Fontana Vecchia - spirit of DHL lingers at his old Sicilian villa (and a werewolf)

Brinsley Headstocks - the final cut, conservation by chainsaw

"DH Lawrence - The truth about a banned genius" - Picture Post magazine visits Eastwood in 1955

DH Lawrence - the Kiowa ranch cookbook...

DH Lawrence - what did he sound like?

Wartime Watnall - What was it like being a civilian in WW2 Watnall?

Wartime Watnall - Cold War National Service memories

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

Wartime Watnall - On Battle of Britain Day we celebrate Watnall's own "few"

Wartime Watnall - what's left of the secret bunkers & why was the phone bill £44 million a year?

The Rolleston's & the first subterranean ball at Welbeck Abbey

Versions of Lawrence - his Ripley Rattlers colour change and is life now imitating his art?

The Old Steam Mill of Watnall

Wartime Watnall - when the young heiress of Watnall Hall served at RAF Watnall

Beauvale School 1889 - Grand dinner honouring Major Rolleston as he vacates Watnall Hall

Watnall Hall - the children's fêtes and garden parties

Wartime Watnall - An "American" Spitfire over RAF Watnall? Ya betta believe it buddy!

Are Watnall Hall's beautiful old gates now in Moorgreen?

The Oath(s) of the Sheriff(s) Of Nottingham

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

DH Lawrence - anyone for herbal beer?

Watnall's Sherlock Holmes and the prank that brought down the ancient gallows...

Lady Maud To The Rescue...

The Tradition of Coronation Bonfires

Captain Rolleston's Norway Diary - July 1889

The Watnall Alps - ski-ing on a slagheap anyone?

Bringing Colonel Rolleston back to life!

True or False? - The "40 Bridges" Giltbrook viaduct had more arches on one side than the other

The old Watnall Reservoir and the Derwent Valley Aqueduct

Watnall Hall graves – Torbreck, the Scottish Connection

“The Greasley Engine” and other Giltbrook mining relics…

The lost medieval tithe barn of 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..."