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Rags to Riches #63
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th July 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell ingram,mediaeval banquets,Boer War,first world war,second world war,louis martin,derby walk of fame,olympics,Jamaica,The Meynell Ingram Arms,Downton abbey,The Crown,Bridgerton,Tony Blackburn,Radion 1,michaelangelo
...oom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide open displaying a large set of fangs! In another room was a bearskin rug complete with head – we had no chance of getting the electrics fixed! Because of all the space we had a table tennis table in a spare bedroom and a pinball machine in another room that my dad had bought at a sale. This all seemed completely normal to us although in hindsight it was obviously anything but normal.
The bearskin rug
I think that my dad felt...