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The Graveyard Shift #23

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Here Comes the Bride (Part 2) #33

...up on the Library sofas, books and drinks long abandoned. It had been a fantastic day, with no fights or arrests. The next day we started our honeymoon at a local hotel in the next village and when we came downstairs the next morning our best man (who lived nearby) called in to see us and joined us for breakfast! I think he wanted to check that we’d had no sleep all night as they’d decorated our room with ribbons and bows and about fifty bells of all types which were fastened onto the mattress springs under the bed! I don’t think anything would have kept us awake after going to bed at 6am! For saying my mum did her utmost to keep us apart, we are still h...

Temple Newsam and the Meynells #42

...1900 the Library became a Chapel, the Great Hall was Jacobeanized and the oak staircase installed.  It seems likely that she felt far more 'at home' at Temple Newsam than at Hoar Cross, as the Hall must have held bad memories for her.     Emily Meynell sitting in the dog cart at Temple Newsam   An ardent lover of art, Emily had acquired a large collection of pictures, especially those of the 17th century.  In accordance with the values of the time, though, she was against anything which was distasteful or erotic.  These particular paintings would be disposed of or 'cleaned up' by having the picture altered to conceal the offending elements!  Ho...

Like Father, Like Sons #20

...As mentioned in earlier blogs my dad used to be a racing driver during the 1950s and ran his own team in the 1960s, travelling all over Europe in his trusty Volkswagon van with his two mechanics and driver. He didn’t have big sponsorship money behind him and most of it was done on a shoestring but he came back with lots of funny stories of their van breaking down or some rural ‘hotel’ that they had stayed in. From each country that he visited he always brought me back a doll dressed in the traditional costume of that country. There was quite a collection and I still have them; I used to put them on display in the Library when our house was open to the publ...

Here Comes the Bride (Part 2) # 28

...up on the Library sofas, books and drinks long abandoned. It had been a fantastic day, with no fights between my parents! The next day we started our honeymoon at a local hotel in the next village and when we came downstairs the next morning our best man (who lived nearby) called in to see us and joined us for breakfast! I think he wanted to check that we’d had no sleep all night as they’d decorated our room with ribbons and bows and about fifty bells of all types which were fastened onto the mattress springs under the bed! I don’t think anything would have kept us awake after going to bed at 6am! For saying my mum did her utmost to keep us apart, we are...

Temple Newsam and the Meynells #40

...1900 the Library became a Chapel, the Great Hall was Jacobeanized and the oak staircase installed.  It seems likely that she felt far more 'at home' at Temple Newsam than at Hoar Cross, as the Hall must have held bad memories for her. An ardent lover of art, Emily had acquired a large collection of pictures, especially those of the 17th century.  In accordance with the values of the time, though, she was against anything which was distasteful or erotic.  These particular paintings would be disposed of or 'cleaned up' by having the picture altered to conceal the offending elements!  How times have changed!     One of Emily's own paintings   Tem...