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MOTOR RACING DAYS #9

Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th February 1973 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,motor racing,pat ferguson,lotus,formula 3,formula 2,colditz,silverstone,mallory park,chris meek

MOTOR RACING DAYS: Although my blogs are about living at Hoar Cross Hall, I would just like to give a bit of background about my dad’s racing career in the years leading up to moving to the Hall as this will set the scene for later instalments of my story. As mentioned in my first blog my dad used to be a racing driver but he actually started off racing motor cycles. He had been a deSpatch rider in World War 2 in North Africa andSpan> after the war ended andSpan> he’d recovered from TB he decided to take up racing his bike as a hobby. As he lived in Derby the nearest track was Donington Park andSpan> he raced there at the beginning of the 1950s. After that he move...

Skools out for summer! #12

Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Europe,Spain,Portugal,Library,streaker,Caves of Drach,Radio 1,ghost

SKOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER! When Hugo andSpan> Emily Meynell built Hoar Cross Hall it stood within 50 acres of landSpan>. Their estate included kitchen gardens, greenhouses, stables, a farm andSpan> cottages. Old Hall (their original home) was also on the estate andSpan> was accessed via a private road, which ran from the main road. By the time the seventies came along the stable block andSpan> Old Hall were private houses andSpan> another part of Old Hall had been made into a children’s home. Emily Meynell had started this home in the Victorian days, calling it ‘The Home of the Good Shepherd’ but it was for boys only at that time. When we were there it was a mixed home andSpan> run by a...

Suits you Sir! #22

Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th October 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,parrot,banquets,suits of armour,electronics,rats,bridgerton,downton abbey,the crown

When we moved to Hoar Cross Hall in 1970 the organ in the private chapel wasn’t working as the house had been empty for 20 years. It was such a shame as it had been designed by Bodley, the famous organ maker of the 19th century. The chapel itself had been added about 25 years after the house was built at the staggering cost of just under £1000! When one of the visitors to the house said he could fix the organ, my dad readily agreed. This chap really loved organs andSpan> volunteered his services free of charge just for the love of mending this musical work of art; my dad was over the moon! Alas, after removing all the pipes andSpan> laying them out in the basement, he...

Growing up in a stately home #1

Posted by Viv Wilson on 30th March 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,church of the holy angels,mounting block,cellars,attics,bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,downton abbey,Derby,Lichfield,Needwood

It was the summer of 1970, Mungo Jerry was at the top of the hit parade andSpan> we were about to move house. But not to any old house – to a 70 roomed mansion in 20 acres of grounds! For years my dad had collected antiques, ever since he was a young boy of 12, andSpan> it was his dream to own a large house where he could put them on show to the general public. In the 1970s he owned the largest private collection of arms andSpan> armour in the country andSpan> his dream was about to be realised; but little did we know what a nightmare would unfold before us. Hoar Cross Hall was the home of the Meynell Ingram family who originated from Leicestershire. Hugo Meynell of Quorndon was...

Eat, drink andSpan> be merry! #10

Posted by Viv Wilson on 15th August 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,radio interview,King,Jester,mediaeval banquets,mead,wine,armour,apples

EAT, DRINK andSpan> BE MERRY! It was the end of the summer season at Hoar Cross Hall in 1973 andSpan> rehearsals had started for the new venture of Mediaeval Banquets when the cast would come round to the house each week to practice their routines. My mum andSpan> one or two other ladies were busy making the skirts andSpan> blouses for the wenches; my mum also made about 200 bibs which the guests were going to be wearing as eating five courses with a dagger can be quite messy! We had a King, a Jester, a Fire-eater, a Halberdier, an organist andSpan> various wenches andSpan> serving ladies. To launch the banquets my parents decided to hold a Press Reception about a month before andSpan>...

The Kitchen Maid's Tale #41

Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th February 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,laughton estate,rolls royce,ducks,glasgow university,second world war,London,Spa HotelSpan>,Butler,debutante,the season

If you were young, free andSpan> single – oh, andSpan> very well-to-do – the 1920s were the decade to be a part of. The upper classes had lots of time on their handSpan>s andSpan> enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre andSpan> jazz clubs.Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross Hall in the 1920s. The ‘depression’ after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home andSpan> many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, andSpan> she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French andSpan> music. However, the £5 bursary she got (equivalent to around £250 in today's mo...

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