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Queen Alexandra - my family #50
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th April 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,hoar cross hall spa,Meynell,Queen Alexandra,Queen Mary,King of Denmark,King charles,Coronation,King George V,King Edward VII,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Royal Family,queen victoria,Sandringham,Queen elizabeth,Balmoral
Queen Alexandra was the daughter-in-law of Queen Victoria as she was married to her eldest son and heir, Edward VII. Her family were from Denmark and although of royal blood they were a distant branch of the royal house of Oldenburg and apparently lived very modestly on her father's army commission. However, in 1852 her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, was chosen to succeed his second cousin Frederick VII as King of Denmark thus the family's status rose and they moved into a new official residence, Bernstorff Palace.
Alexandra, or 'Alix' as she was known was born on 1st December 1844, her full name being Alexandra Caroline M...
Bacon's 'Essay on Gardens' # 56
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell ingram,emily meynell,Country Life,temple newsam,pleached walks,fountains,Francis Bacon,Essay on Gardens,Italian gardens,elizabethan,The Crown,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton
Francis Bacon was born in 1561 and was 1st Viscount St Alban. He wrote his Essay on Gardens in 1625, a year before his death of pneumonia. He was also Lord Chancellor of England under King James I and led the advancement of both natural philosophy and scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. The essays he wrote between, mainly, 1612 and 1625 were about anything from love and marriage to superstitions to gardens and any subject in between! Bacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in the later essays and the 'Oxford Dictionary of Quotations' includes no fewer than 91 quotations...
Temple Newsam and the Meynells
Posted by Viv Wilson on 15th August 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | temple newsam,Meynell Ingram,Old Hall,hoar cross hall,Jacobean,Earl of Darnley,Mary Queen of Scots,Leeds,Capability Brown,hugo meynell,emily meynell
TEMPLE NEWSAM AND THE MEYNELLS: On 11th August 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram married the Hon. Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bart, afterwards 1st Viscount Halifax. The Woods were an old gentry family, for many centuries respectable York merchants. They were to turn grand upon the discovery of coal beneath their ancestral estates. This was the great Barnsley field, with several hundred acres of Britain's deepest and finest coal. Sir Charles Wood had a distinguished political career and they owned family seats at Garrowby, Pocklington, near York and Hickleton, near Doncaster. They also owned a London house in Belgrave Square....
Christmas High Jinks #72
Posted by Viv Wilson on 6th December 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,new years eve,Midsummer,Christmas,church,carols,bells,Downton Abbey,The Crown,mulled wine
The sounds of 'La Golondrina' floated through the air as Viv sat at the grand piano. How pleased she was that someone had asked them to look after this fine musical instrument for a few months. Having learned to play when she was younger, this gave Viv the opportunity to brush up on her skills as a pianist and she was thoroughly enjoying it. The piano was in the Library and suited the room perfectly. She could hear her father and an antique dealer talking in the Long Gallery as they haggled over the price of a painting that he was selling.
Viv gazed out of the window as she played and thought back to the Midsummer’s Eve Ball that they’d had a few...
To the Manor Born #77
Posted by Viv Wilson on 22nd February 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | shardlow motor racing,hoar cross hall,barons eden,Swarkestone Bridge,bonnie prince charlie,Alpheus Burgin,Rectory,River Trent,18th century,Dower House,Shardlow Hall,Shardlow House,Shardlow Manor,The Crown,Downton Abbey
Before we moved to Hoar Cross Hall my father had bought an old manor house in the village of Shardlow, near Derby, which had previously been a vicarage among other things. I think my parents must have had a love of historic buildings and indeed were members of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings and Monuments. My dad had a business in Derby at the time making alabaster items such as table lamps and candlestick holders and when he bought the manor house he moved his business there, as it had lots of outbuildings for all the alabaster equipment.
Some of my father's alabaster pieces
The house itself had about 17 rooms and was built i...
Christmas High Jinks #87
Posted by Viv Wilson on 6th December 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,Barons Eden,Christmas,New Years Eve,Church,Nativity,Bellringers,Carol singers,Candles,ghost,A Christmas Carol,Mulled wine,christmas cake,haunted house,stately home,mansion
Here's a true story to get you in the mood for Christmas! My brother and I were definitely not good children and we were always amazed that Santa still left us gifts on Christmas Eve! We were like 'elves behaving badly'! Hope you enjoy it!
The sounds of "La Golondrina" floated through the air as Viv sat at the grand piano. How pleased she was that someone had asked them to look after this fine musical instrument for a few months. Having learned to play when she was younger, this gave Viv the opportunity to brush up on her skills as a pianist and she was thoroughly enjoying it. The piano was in the Library and suited the room perfectly. She could h...