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To the Manor Born #77

...old in my blogs ‘Growing up in a stately home’.   Don't miss next month's blog - 'Meet the Neighbours - Blithfield Hall' A new series of blogs about historical neighbouring properties to Hoar Cross Hall and district.     If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, please click here and feel free to share with your friends.Join me on a Tour of the Hall - click here to follow me on my YouTube channel and see all the rooms mentioned in my blogs - including the secret doors and the haunted attics! 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...

The War Years and Beyond #37

...rought my blog full circle and if you would like to read it from the beginning (with new added stories, since remembered) please click here and feel free to share with your friends. I will also be writing a few more history blogs so keep a look out for those if that’s what grabs your interest plus I will be putting up more photos spanning the many decades at the Hall from the Victorian era right through to our time there in the seventies! Enjoy!    ...

Doing up a stately home #4

...my first blog that the basement rooms were the servants’ quarters with a Servants Hall where they all ate their meals. Originally there had been extra rooms on one end of the house which were the kitchens and sculleries downstairs (off the basement) and sewing/mending rooms upstairs. These rooms had been demolished by a group of monks who were hoping to buy the Hall back in the sixties. I’ll never understand why they were allowed to knock down part of a beautiful house before they even bought it and this end of the house was now a rough area used for parking. You could still see the doors to the Boot Room, the Flower Room and the Boiler Room as they had op...

Becoming a rock chick #16

...r another blog! The guinea pigs were safely put back into their hutch - not long after this we discovered that one of them was expecting babies! Not sure what happened in the Library but they were both supposed to be girls when we bought them! After a couple of months at college I met a boy called Kev. He was in a band and his chat up line was that they needed a singer and he was pretty sure he could get me an audition (it must have worked as we’re still together!) I agreed, even though I’d done very little singing, and I went along to their rehearsal room one afternoon and got the job. So now I was fronting a rock band – what would my mother have to say...

Gardeners' World at Hoar Cross #39

...previous blog ‘Life below stairs’). By 1952, when the Meynell family left, the number of servants had reduced to three or four, and the outside staff comprised a head gardener (Mr Robert Madeley) and three under-gardeners – a sad end to the glory days of the Victorian age.   Don’t miss next weeks’ instalment:    'The Hall: World War II and beyond' If you would like to follow my story form the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.    ...

Ghouls Galore! #85

...t month's blog - 'The War Years'   If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, please click here and feel free to share with your friends.Join me on a Tour of the Hall - click here to follow me on my YouTube channel and see all the rooms mentioned in my blogs - including the secret doors and the haunted attics! 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 and let me know what you think!Would make a great Christmas gift!    ...