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Skools out for Summer! #58

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To the Manor Born #77

...NOW!!!  'an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> an class='highlight'>Boughtan> a Mansion' is out in book form on amazon - all an class='highlight'>Myan> memoirs packed with lots of photographs from the times.  Go check it out and let me know what you think!Would make a great gift!  ...

Moving Out#32

...MOVING OUT:    and so the day arrived a month or so after our wedding when an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> had to leave the Hall.  Ten years after moving in he was now moving out, leaving his dream home for an class='highlight'>Myan> mum to live in alone.  Gavin moved with him and Piers was away at school most of the time.  It was a mammoth task as he had so much stuff to move, especially from the basement.  He had some heavy machinery too that he’d brought with him from his alabaster days, including a band saw which we used to saw up logs for the huge fireplaces in the main rooms.  He had an class='highlight'>Boughtan> a house in nearby Burton on Trent which had some outbuildings for a workshop and there he moved to start a...

Ghouls Galore! #85

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an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> an class='highlight'>Boughtan> a Mansion #1

...an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> an class='highlight'>Boughtan> a MaNSION!    It was the summer of 1970, Mungo Jerry was at the top of the hit parade and we were about to move house. But not to any old house – to a 70 roomed mansion in 20 acres of grounds! For years an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> had collected antiques, ever since he was a young boy of 12, and it was his dream to own a large house where he could put them on show to the general public. In the 1970s he owned the largest private collection of arms and armour in the country and his dream was about to be realised; but little did we know what a nightmare would unfold before us. Hoar Cross Hall was the home of the Meynell Ingram family who originated from Leicestershir...

The Graveyard Shift #23

...Life carried on at Hoar Cross Hall as best it could in difficult circumstances. an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> continued to go to arms and armour Fairs to buy and sell antiques and we also went to a mediaeval banquet in Cheshire one night, although it wasn’t anywhere near as good as ours! Once or twice we took an class='highlight'>Myan> an class='highlight'>Dadan> out with our friends to Derby, where he originated from, and that seemed to cheer him up. But he really needed to get away from the house for longer periods of time and when he saw a boat advertised for sale at Caernarvon he jumped at the chance and an class='highlight'>Boughtan> it. It was an ex lifeboat called The Bembo so quite sturdy, although in need of a lick of paint and a bit of TLC. Th...