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Meet the Neighbours - Shugborough Hall #80
Posted by Viv Wilson on 22nd May 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,meynell ingram,History,Stately home,haunted house,Thomas Anson,Shugborough Hall,the Library,The aristocracy,Chinese,Earl of Lichfield,Patrick Lichfield,Photographer,Cannock Chase,Queen Victoria,Queen Mary,Titanic Brewery
The next house in this series is a mere half hour from Hoar Cross Hall and we often visited it during the summer months and later, when my children were born, we’d take them for a visit too! Seated on the edge of Cannock Chase this elegant house was once a manor house owned by the Bishops of Lichfield, until the dissolution of the monasteries around 1540. Later it came into the hands of the Anson family, who were ancestors of the Earls of Lichfield, and stayed there for three centuries. William Anson’s grandson, also called William, demolished the manor house in 1693 and built a three storey building in the Neo-Classical style which forms the central p...
Mediaeval Weaponry #84
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th September 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,History,mediaeval banquets,mediaeval weaponry,swords,halberds,suits of armour,daggars,Tudors,stately homes,downton abbey,aristocracy,middle ages,my dad bought a mansion
...that two hands could be used to hold the sword instead of one, and of course, only the aristocracy would have owned a sword as they were so expensive to make.
A Japanese sword on display
Our swords and weapons were always of great interest to the general public along with the suits of armour but I’m glad we only used them for fun at our banquets!
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