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Ghostbusters! #7
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th July 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,ghost,Meynell,spooky,100 years,Dracula,Peter Cushing,Motor racing
GHOSTBUSTERS! People were always coming to Hoar Cross Hall to either hire the place or to have a look around. In 1973, because of all the media interest in our ghosts, we had a couple of professional ghost hunters asking to stay over one night to try and find the source of the noises. They brought cases full of recording equipment and set it all up in one of the attic rooms. Rather them than me I thought! Then I had a brilliant idea and went off to tell my brother Gavin all about it. As mentioned in my first blog the attic and basement had a row of bells which the family used to summon the servants. Before the three men arrived we spent all day trying out a...
Ghostbusters! #8
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th June 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghost,attic,bells,long gallery,peter cushing,Dracula,kenny ball and his jazzmen,bat,Hammer house of horror,horror,basement,safe,100 yrs
GHOSTBUSTERS!
People were always coming to Hoar Cross Hall to either hire the place or to have a look around. In 1973, because of all the media interest in our ghosts, we had a couple of professional ghost hunters asking to stay over one night to try and find the source of the noises. They brought cases full of recording equipment and set it all up in one of the attic rooms. Rather them than me I thought! Then I had a brilliant idea and went off to tell my brother Gavin all about it. As mentioned in my first blog the attic and basement had a row of bells which the family used to summon the servants. Before the three men arrived we spent all day trying out all t...
A New Year Calamity #34
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd January 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,New Year's Eve,Auld Lang Syne,Bagpipes,Scottish piper,Downton abbey,servants
...es of the servants who lived and worked at Hoar Cross Hall - don’t miss next week’s instalment:
'Hoar Cross Hall - life below stairs'
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Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th May 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghostbusters,attics,basement,spooky,Victorian,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,kenny ball and his jazzmen,Gothic,motor racing
...People were always coming to Hoar Cross Hall to either hire the house or to have a look around. In 1973, because of all the media interest in our ghosts, we had a couple of professional ghost hunters asking to stay over one night to try and find the source of the noises. They brought cases full of recording equipment and set it all up in one of the attic rooms. Rather them than me I thought! Then I had a brilliant idea and went off to tell my brother Gavin all about it. As mentioned in my first blog the attic and basement had a row of bells which the family used to summon the servants. Before the three men arrived we spent all day trying out all the bells to see...
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
...were the servants’ quarters in the 18th century and included, along with the kitchen, a pantry, a dairy, a cheese room, maids’ rooms, store rooms and a back staircase. Altogether there were nine bedrooms and at the bottom of the house a cellar with brewing tubs in it. Leading off the main bedroom was a smaller room with another door to the back staircase – we called this the nursery as my younger brother Piers was born here and we assumed that the need for a doorway from the servants’ quarters meant that an 18th century nursery maid could access the room to see to a crying baby, thus ensuring the lady of the house got her beauty sleep!
The rooms at...
Hoar Cross Hall meets Downton Abbey #99
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th September 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,downton abbey,Highclere Castle,Bishop of Winchester,first world war,Great War,meynell ingram,Shropshire,Leicestershire,Derbyshire,History,period drama,servants,Suffragettes,my dad bought a mansion,Earl of Carnarvon,Tomb of Tutankhamun,Eqyptologist,Lord Grantham
...With the new Downton Abbey film out this month I thought I would do a comparison of the two family homes, Downton and Hoar Cross Hall, the latter being my old family home for those of you who are new to these blogs. Although Downton Abbey is fictional, the house on which it is based is not, it being Highclere Castle in Hampshire which was built in 1679 and is owned by the Earl of Carnarvon. Hoar Cross Hall was the original home of the Meynell Ingram family who first came from Leicestershire and was built in 1863. Hugo Meynell of Quorndon was the High Sheriff of Staffordshire and Member of Parliament for Lichfield and the family owned considerable property in...