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Ghostbusters #8
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st February 1973 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,hoar cross hall blog,viv wilson,ghostbusters,scary,movie,story,ghost,ghost hunters,meynell,ghost stories
...few extra visitors on a Sunday afternoon, keen to see where it all happened!
Amazingly I was mad keen on horror stories and would often read them before going to sleep – no wonder I was so scared to move around the house once it was dark. My room was next to my brothers’ room and we had an adjoining door because their room was a bedroom and my smaller room would have been the dressing room in the Victorian days so there was always a connecting door between rooms. I was often glad of that door so we could move easily between rooms if we ever got scared in the evenings. All the rooms along the bedroom corridor were like this but there was also another d...
The Kitchen Maid's Story
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th September 1985 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,London,cook,Paliament,debutante,second world war,1920's,servant,aristocracy
...here were visitors arriving and her statement below shows the implications for the staff of a large country house:-
“I don’t know who they were, but they were a lady and gentleman, a valet and lady’s maid, a grown-up daughter, and a very young child. Young enough to have a nanny. That meant three extra in the dining room, two extra in the steward’s room, an extra nanny, and an extra child. All on different sorts of food.”
They also, respectively, occupied different sorts of dining area!
Jenny’s day was seventeen hours long. There were the extra vegetables to peel, the fire to keep up, bread sauce to make, gravy, grouse and fish to prepare, M...
Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th November 2018 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Derbyshire,Robert Bakewell,ha ha wall,gentleman's evening,Staffordshire Building society,The Staffordshire Magazine,Christmas Day,Ghostbusters!
...ld to the visitors but it was good fun and I can now say that I’ve been on the front cover of a magazine!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Ghostbusters!
If you would like to follow my story from the beginning click here
...Ghostbusters! #8
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd December 2018 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,attic,ghost hunters,Meynell,spooky,kenny ball,peter cushing,new years eve
...few extra visitors on a Sunday afternoon, keen to see where it all happened!
Amazingly I was mad keen on horror stories and would often read them before going to sleep – no wonder I was so scared to move around the house once it was dark. My room was next to my brothers’ room and we had an adjoining door because their room was a bedroom and my smaller room would have been the dressing room in the Victorian days so there was always a connecting door between rooms. I was often glad of that door so we could move easily between rooms if we ever got scared in the evenings. All the rooms along the bedroom corridor were like this but there was also another d...Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th October 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,the staffordshire magazine,Christmas,military,robert bakewell
...ld to the visitors but it was good fun and I can now say that I’ve been on the front cover of a magazine!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Ghostbusters!
If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
...Calendar Girls and Front Covers #6
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th July 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,models,gentlemen,glamour photography,ghostbusters,Staffordshire Magazine
...ld to the visitors but it was good fun and I can now say that I’ve been on the front cover of a magazine!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Ghostbusters!
If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
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