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Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th May 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Chapel,Damask Room,Hessian Room,servants hall,dungeon,execution chamber,skeleton
...ere was a Damask Room, a Hessian Room and Hugo Meynell’s old bedRoom and dressing Room. This was where he lived after his riding accident which had left him an invalid. There was a large wooden board from the window sill to the stone balustrade and he would sit by the window and wait for squirrels and birds to cross the board and eat titbits from his hand – what a charming picture this conjures up albeit in tragic circumstances. This Room became our lounge and the dressing Room next door became our new kitchen with a serving hatch knocked through for mealtimes – well, it was the seventies!
The Chapel
The Damask Room was to be open to the publ...DIY Stately Home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Hoar Cross Hall,Meynell,Hessian Room,Damask Room,East Wing,West Wing,Visitors,Boot Boy,Execution Chamber,Kitchen,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Bridgerton
...ere was a Damask Room, a Hessian Room and Colonel Hugo Meynell’s old bedRoom and dressing Room. This was where he lived after his riding accident which had left him an invalid. There was a large wooden board from the window sill to the stone balustrade (see picture below) and he would sit by the window and wait for squirrels and birds to cross the board and eat titbits from his hand – what a charming picture this conjures up albeit in tragic circumstances. This Room became our lounge and the dressing Room next door became our new kitchen with a serving hatch knocked through for mealtimes – well, it was the seventies!
The stone balustrade near Col. H...
Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,execution chamber,Damask Room,Victorian,skeleton
...ere was a Damask Room, a Hessian Room and Hugo Meynell’s old bedRoom and dressing Room. This was where he lived after his riding accident which had left him an invalid. There was a large wooden board from the window sill to the stone balustrade and he would sit by the window and wait for squirrels and birds to cross the board and eat titbits from his hand – what a charming picture this conjures up albeit in tragic circumstances. This Room became our lounge and the dressing Room next door became our new kitchen with a serving hatch knocked through for mealtimes – well, it was the seventies!
The Damask Room was to be open to the public and had actua...Doing up a stately home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th June 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,dungeon,boot boy,flower Room,chapel,skeleton,axeman
...ere was a Damask Room, a Hessian Room and Hugo Meynell’s old bedRoom and dressing Room. This was where he lived after his riding accident which had left him an invalid. There was a large wooden board from the window sill to the stone balustrade and he would sit by the window and wait for squirrels and birds to cross the board and eat titbits from his hand – what a charming picture this conjures up albeit in tragic circumstances. This Room became our lounge and the dressing Room next door became our new kitchen with a serving hatch knocked through for mealtimes – well, it was the seventies!
The Damask Room was to be open to the public and had actual Damask...
THE RENOVATIONS BEGIN #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st September 1970 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,living in a stately home,hoar cross hall blog,1970's,growing up in a stately home,renovations
...ere was a Damask Room, a Hessian Room and Hugo Meynell’s old bedRoom and dressing Room. This was where he lived after his riding accident which had left him an invalid. There was a large wooden board from the window sill to the stone balustrade and he would sit by the window and wait for squirrels and birds to cross the board and eat titbits from his hand – what a charming picture this conjures up albeit in tragic circumstances. This Room became our lounge and the dressing Room next door became our new kitchen with a serving hatch knocked through for mealtimes – well, it was the seventies!
The Damask Room was to be open to the public and had actua...Reburbishing our Mansion #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 4th November 2018 in Blogging | hoar cross hall,Victorian,Meynell,Chapel,Mission Impossible,armour,dungeon,execution chamber
...ere was a Damask Room, a Hessian Room and Hugo Meynell’s old bedRoom and dressing Room. This was where he lived after his riding accident which had left him an invalid. There was a large wooden board from the window sill to the stone balustrade and he would sit by the window and wait for squirrels and birds to cross the board and eat titbits from his hand – what a charming picture this conjures up albeit in tragic circumstances. This Room became our lounge and the dressing Room next door became our new kitchen with a serving hatch knocked through for mealtimes – well, it was the seventies!
The Damask Room was to be open to the public and had actua...