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Midnight Pool Parties #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th September 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,gentry,Frank Sinatra,swimming pool,Meynell Ingram Arms,motor bike,ghost,Roman toga,solicitor
After leaving school I spent a year at Burton-on-Trent Technical College studying to be a secretary but my year at college had come to an end - now to find a job! It didn’t take too long as there was plenty of employment around in the seventies and I was soon offered a position with a small engineering firm in Burton. As I didn’t drive there was Still the problem of me getting to work and dad managed to talk the residents of our apartments into taking me, as they were going to Burton every day as well, and it would save him coming out twice a day (no doubt he was thinking about the petrol he would save too!)
Kev, my boyfriend, and the band were getting a fe...
Hysterical Productions #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 16th August 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,londons olympia,IRA,Birmingham,monk,Grand Hotel Leicester,New Year's Eve,rock chick,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton
By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets at Hoar Cross Hall and they were Still going strong. Most of the original cast were Still with us but we were on our second King now and also doing our own catering and bar, instead of an outside firm coming in. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead.
But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly being chatted up by men who bought us drinks all evening (even though w...Hysterical Productions #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st November 1974 in Early Days | mediaeval banquets,racing car,olympia,london,ira,birmingham,hoar cross hall
HYSTERICAL PRODUCTIONS: By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets and they were Still going strong. Most of the original cast were Still with us but we were on our second king now and also doing our own catering and bar, whereas when we first started, we had got a catering firm in to do it all. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII I am’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead.
But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly being chatted up by...
Hysterical Productions #17
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th February 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home |
HYSTERICAL PRODUCTIONS: By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets at the Hall and they were Still going strong. Most of the original cast were Still with us but we were on our second King now and also doing our own catering and bar, whereas when we first started, we had a catering firm in to do it all. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead. But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly be...
Hysterical Productions! #13
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st December 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,new year\'s eve,rock chick,1975,mediaeval banquets,Christmas,Fawlty Towers,Londons Olympia
HYSTERICAL PRODUCTIONS: By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets at Hoar Cross Hall and they were Still going strong. Most of the original cast were Still with us but we were on our second King now and also doing our own catering and bar, whereas when we first started, we had a catering firm in to do it all. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead. But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly bein...Hysterical Productions #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 21st September 2020 in Growing Up In Stately Home | mediaeval banquets,King,fire eater,long gallery,birmingham,londons olympia,afghan,New Years Eve
HYSTERICAL PRODUCTIONS: By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets at Hoar Cross Hall and they were Still going strong. Most of the original cast were Still with us but we were on our second King now and also doing our own catering and bar, whereas when we first started, we had a catering firm in to do it all. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead. But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly being chatte...