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Party On! #18
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st June 1976 in Early Days |
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Coming Of Age #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th June 1976 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,party,hippy venue,1970's,businesses,roman,toga,moat,stately home,swimming,pool,parties,birmingham,sex pistols,punk,music,band
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The Graveyard Shift..... #24
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st July 1976 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,spooky,horse,pub,gentry,police,ghostly,agatha christie,moonlight,boat,Caernarvon
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RACE TRACK ‘AFTER PARTIES’ #27
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th July 1977 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,racing car,donington park,mallory park,bob gerard,kirkby hall,grand prix,museum,car,racing driver,alvin stardust,joe bugner
...y similar story to the Donington Park one actually! The official opening was in 1956 with Bob Gerrard being in the first race. My dad would have been there racing his car too throughout the 1950s alongside great names such as Graham Hill and Jim Clarke. So it seemed appropriate that his ex-driver should buy the track that he used to race round!
Chris decided to hold a party there when he re-opened it and so we all went along to celebrate. It was similar to the Donington party with lots of different races and marquees full of free food and drink! They went on all day and my friend Janine came along to join in the fun. We went into one of the marquee pa...
The War Years and Beyond #39
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th February 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Second World War,barometric,First World War,London,Red Cross,downton abbey,Hotel and Spa,fradley aerodrome,keeping up with the aristocrats
...s a funny story about how her husband had come home one day and told her he had bought another house. He was raving on about the ‘hard tennis courts, so much better than our grass ones’. She also told us how excited the servants were to have a smaller house to clean! How times have changed! The header picture shows the Meynell children on their ponies and bikes with the baby in her pram - what a charming image of how the aristocracy lived in those days.
The Hall and contents were put up for sale after the family left in 1952 but the house failed to sell so they rented it out to a Dr Gillies and his wife, Maimi. He was a highly regarded consultant at the...
Ghostbusters #8
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
...d to do a story on our resident ghost. They turned up, coincidentally, the day after I’d heard more noises in the night. I have always kept a diary and this particular night tells me that I couldn’t sleep and was sitting in bed reading at about 1am when I suddenly heard a young girl crying – not for the first time either. I told the press men all about it and about the other noises we’d heard in the attic and they took some photos of us three children peeping round my bedroom door and one of me on the stairs where the ghost always appeared. We toured the attics with them and they took a few more pictures, then down to the basement which always looked so...