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Eat, Drink & Be Merry #11
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th June 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,sothebys,christies,rolls royce,TV,downton abbey,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,Samurai warrior,Far East,motor racing
...cked with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...
Rags to Riches #14
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st July 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Italian,Derby,first world war,second world war,Bridgerton,Downton Abbey,tony blackburn,Michaelangelo
...cked with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #17
Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th August 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,william the conqueror,christian community,BIshop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,second world war,first world war,George VI,Queen Mother,Queen Elizabeth
...cked with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...Hysterical Productions #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st November 1974 in Early Days | mediaeval banquets,racing car,olympia,london,ira,birmingham,hoar cross hall
...here were lots of funny things that happened. Myra (the fire-eater’s wife) and I always did the cloakroom and one time this lady took her coat off and as she did so her halter neck top came undone and she stood there in her bra and skirt for all to see!
Hoar Cross Hall Banquet Menu 1974
Once the banquets started we would join in with the singing, even standing behind the main act and pretending to be the backing group. Another member of the cast would wear a sombrero and shake maracas to a Latin song while we threw petals all over him – don’t ask me why! My dad didn’t seem to mind me doing all this but when my mum started singing along and...
The Graveyard Shift..... #24
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st July 1976 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,spooky,horse,pub,gentry,police,ghostly,agatha christie,moonlight,boat,Caernarvon
...ainly had lots of fun in those days, as a lot of the customers were quintessentially English and the local gentry were quite eccentric – even to the point of one gent bringing a horse into the pub one lunchtime and standing with it in the bar while he sipped his G & T - only in England!
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WHODUNIT IN THE LIBRARY? #25
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th July 1976 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,library,secret doors,rat,blood,valium,Diazepam,birmingham,high court,chapel,truncheon,Hercule Poirot,church,police
...WHODUNIT IN THE LIBRARY? When we first moved to the Hall. growing up in a stately home seemed an idyllic way to live – and lots of fun if you’re a child. This rambling old house full of empty rooms and secret doors, wild gardens and woods to explore, was in some ways a dream come true for our family, certainly for my dad. But as we turned from children to teenagers the isolation and lack of public transport was frustrating. Coupled with this was my parents fighting and subsequent split, living at each end of the house and battling for the house and business through their solicitors.
The effect this had on me, as the eldest child who perhaps saw more o...