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Midnight Pool Parties # 59

...we had a ghost at each end of the house.  What a night! The Meynell Ingrams Arms - our refuge!   We were now spending more of our social time in the Meynell Arms, the local pub.  Every time we went in everybody wanted an update on what was going on at the Hall with my parents and their long running divorce battle.   It was a bit like a local soap opera!   We had also become engaged and I stayed at Kev’s house in the week so I could get to work easily having failed my driving test a couple of times; weekends were spent at the Hall.   Hoar Cross and the surrounding villages were a bit of a Birmingham commuter belt area and a lot of the families...

Ghouls Galore! #85

...eries and ghosts but when you actually live in one in real life, it’s a bit different!  The spooky attic corridor   My parents also heard noises when they were in their bedroom too.  It sounded like a room full of people talking, like at a party.  They thought it might be birds nesting under the eaves so they slept in another room further along the corridor to see if they still heard it – and sure enough, they did!  What was going on?  Had we disturbed some lost souls forever wandering in the attics? Well, that’s not all because one night my mum was woken up by the sight of a little girl ‘floating’ over the bed.    She said the girl wa...

Growing up in a stately home #1

...fessional ghost hunters - but that’s another story which will be featured in a later blog!   Don’t miss next week’s instalment:   'Moving Day Arrives!'   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!        ...

A Bit Of Background #1

...fessional ghost hunters - but that’s another story which will be featured in a later blog!...

Things That Go Bump In The Night! #3

...eries and ghosts but when you’re actually in the middle of it in real life, it’s a bit different.  My parents also heard noises from their bedroom.  It sounded like a room full of people talking, like at a party.  They couldn’t work out if it was birds nesting under the eaves so they slept in another room down the corridor to see if they still heard it – and sure enough, they did!  What was going on?  Had we disturbed some lost souls forever wandering in the attics? One night my mum was woken up by the sight of a little girl ‘floating’ over the bed.  By the time she’d woken my dad up the child had disappeared.  She said the girl was wearin...

THE RENOVATIONS BEGIN #4

...eing that ghost and I hated all those suits of armour looking at me so I would leave the lights on and let my mum switch them off later!  However, if I heard any strange noises in the night at least I could blame the new tenants now and not think about the attic ‘tenants’. Around the back and side of the house was a dry ‘moat’ as we called it.  Not full of water but there to allow light into the basement rooms.  A stone balustrade surrounded it and we loved to walk along the top of it even though it was a long drop if we’d fallen off!  These moats were full of soil and dead leaves which all needed to be cleared and the only way of accessing them w...