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Victorian Society #93
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th April 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,the Home of the Good Shepherd,Great Ormond St Hospital,victorian,Music Halls,light bulb,history,Meynell,Royal Victoria Military Hospital,charity,Downton Abbey,period drama,Victoria,Victoria and Albert,royal family
...stence of sex, for instance, even though educated men constantly discussed it or wrote books about it, and even had affairs or liaisons with prostitutes. Men seemed to think this was acceptable behaviour yet if a woman had an affair she was ostracised from society!
Back in the Victorian era the Anglican church dominated the religious landscape and many wealthy aristocrats helped to start schools to educate children who otherwise would never have learned to read or write. These schools belonged to the church and were known as Church of England Primary Schools. The wealthy would often set up charities to help those less fortunate than themselves along wit...
Rags to Riches #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th August 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Jamaica,alabaster,Derby walk of fame,Olympics,Louis Martin,first world war,second world war,Downton Abey,Bridgerton,period drama
...ced me to sex, drugs and Pink Floyd!
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...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
...ced me to sex, drugs and Pink Floyd!
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Follow me around my childhood home in my 'Tour of the Hall' – click here to view and subscribe to my YouTube channel. OUT NOW!!! 'My Dad Bought a Mansion' is out in book form on Amazon - all my memoirs packed with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...Rags to Riches #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd February 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,mediaeval banquets,suits of armour,first world war,Louis Martin,second world war,olympics
...ced me to sex, drugs and Pink Floyd!
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...Rags to Riches #12
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | first world war,second world war,alabaster,Chellaston mines,Derby,Italian,louis martin,suits of armour,Olympics
...ced me to sex, drugs and Pink Floyd!
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Midnight pool parties #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th January 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Roman,toga,Meynell,Birmiingham,Meynell Arms
...MIDNIGHT POOL PARTIES: After leaving school I spent a year at Burton-on-Trent Technical College studying to be a secretary but my year at college had come to an end - now to find a job! It didn’t take too long as there was plenty of employment around in those days and I was soon offered a position with a small engineering firm in Burton. As I didn’t drive there was still the problem of me getting to work and dad managed to talk the residents of the apartments into taking me, as they were going to Burton every day as well, and it would save him coming out twice a day (no doubt he was thinking about the petrol he would save too!)
Kev and the ba...