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Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th June 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghostbusters,front cover,magazine,swords,military jackets,models,german,english,photographer,London
...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!
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 Also, check out my video tour of Hoar Cross Hall as I re-visit my family home, click here to view it.
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The origins of the stately home #43
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th March 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Saltford Manor House,Bath,Still room,bridgerton,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Lord,Earl,Duke,Baron
...today by visitors to these grand houses.
All large houses are called different names too and you may have thought that this was down to the size of them, as I did. And this is true to a point but they also tell us what type of person lived there and what the house was used for. For instance, a Palace belongs to a royal household, a Chateau belongs to a King or nobleman and a Manor is always on an estate of a Lord's lands. The people who lived in them were usually aristocrats – families of high social rank with a title such as Lord, Lady, Earl, Duke or Baron. Often they were Members of Parliament and Justices of the Peace due to their high education and would...Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th May 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,robert bakewell,French,Calendar Girls,Front Covers,gentleman's evening,staffordshire building society,staffordshire magazine,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,Downton Abbey
...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!
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Don’t miss next week’s instalment:  'Ghostbusters!'
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If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
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! ...
The country house in society #48
Posted by Viv Wilson on 31st March 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,National Trust,Victorian,Gothic,19th century,Elizabethan,Georgian,Downton abbey,the crown,Wentworth Woodhouse,Blenheim Palace
...  'Royal visitors at Hoar Cross Hall' If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.Follow me on a personal tour of my childhood home on YouTube.OUT NOW!! 'My Dad Bought a Mansion' book is available on Amazon.
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All my memoirs packed with lots of original photographs from the times.Go check it out and let me know what you think!
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Queen Alexandra - my family #52
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th April 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,King Charles,King Edward VII,King Edward VIII,King George V,Queen Alexandra,Cowes,Britannia,buckingham palace,Hyde Park,The Crown,Downton Abbey,Bernsdorff Palace,Isle of wight,Amazon
...reign and visitors included Tsar Alexander III of Russia and of course, Queen Alexandra and Edward VII of the UK.
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The King's Birthday
The United Bands are all together here to celebrate the King's birthday, probably in the first decade of the 20th century. It looks as though Alexandra has taken the picture from a window of Buckingham Palace which overlooks Hyde Park. In it can be seen cars and carriages riding through the park and people enjoying a stroll or a picnic as they listen to the band play, much as we would today when celebrating a Jubilee or a Coronation as we will next week.
I hope you've enjoyed these photos as much as I have - the book...
The Library #69
Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th November 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,meynell ingram,amazon,secret,Chapel,Library,Robert Adam,Earl of Worcester,Lichfield Cathedral,my dad bought a mansion,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Royal Family
...ks on the visitors by sneaking in and out of the secret doors when they weren’t looking!
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Don't miss next week's instalment:Â 'The Ballroom'
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If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, please click here and feel free to share with your friends.Follow me on a personal tour of my childhood home on YouTube and see the secret doors in action!OUT NOW!! 'My Dad Bought a Mansion' book is available on Amazon.
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