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The haunting of Hoar Cross Hall #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 9th December 2019 in Growing Up in a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,haunting,alice,christmas day,Victorian,Butler,Meynell
THE HAUNTinG OF HOAR CROSS HALL: (Based on a true story) The typewriter keys clattered away as Viv wrote her story. It was coming along nicely and she was feeling pleased with herself. The attic room that she and her brothers had made into their ‘den’ was ideal for getting away from everybody and having some peace and quiet and she quite forgot about the time as she lost herself in the plot. Suddenly she looked up and realised how dark it was getting; the December nights were pulling in and it was already quite dusky by 3.30pm. Quickly she packed her books and folders away and prepared to go downstairs. How she hated being up in the a...The Haunting of Hoar Cross Hall #27
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th December 2020 in Growing Up in a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,attic,Meynell,ghost,alice,typewriter,Library,Ballroom
THE HAUNTinG OF HOAR CROSS HALL: (Based on true events) The typewriter keys clattered away as Viv wrote her story. It was coming along nicely and she was feeling pleased with herself. The attic room that she and her brothers had made into their ‘den’ was ideal for getting away from everybody and having some peace and quiet and she quite forgot about the time as she lost herself in the plot. Suddenly she looked up and realized how dark it was getting; the December nights were pulling in and it was already quite dusky by 3.30pm. Quickly she packed her books and folders away and prepared to go downstairs. How she hated being up in the a...
alice - the ghost in the mirror
Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th December 2019 in Growing Up in a Stately Home | Meynell,alice through the looking glass,Lewis Carroll,Charles Dodgson,ghost,hoar cross hall,Spa Hotel
alice – THE GHOST in THE MIRROR: in 1865 Lewis Carroll wrote another story about alice following on from ‘alice in wonderland’. It was called ‘alice through the Looking Glass’. in this story alice climbs onto the mantlepiece over the fireplace in her lounge and finds that she can climb through the mirror into another world which is reversed, just like a reflection. Once again, she encounters strange figures in a world dominated by a chess set and nursery rhyme characters, among others. But what inspired Lewis Carroll to write about a little girl having lots of adventures?
in the 1850s Charles Dodgson (Carroll’s real name) studied...The Haunting of Hoar Cross Hall #32
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th December 2021 in Growing Up in a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghosts,Christmas,Library,attic,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton,The Crown
The typewriter keys clattered away as Viv wrote her story. It was coming along nicely and she was feeling pleased with herself. The attic room that she and her brothers had made into their ‘den’ was ideal for getting away from everybody and having some peace and quiet and she quite forgot about the time as she lost herself in the plot. Suddenly she looked up and realized how dark it was getting; the December nights were pulling in and it was already quite dusky by 3.30pm. Quickly she packed her books and folders away and prepared to go downstairs. How she hated being up in the attics when it was getting dark as it was so spooky! The wind was starting to howl...
Ghosts of Christmas Past #88
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th December 2024 in Growing Up in a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,Haunted,ghost,christmas,attics,December,history,historic houses,stately home,alice,Mince pies,Library,victorian,Downton abbey,The Aristocrats,The Royal Family,my dad bought a mansion
Welcome to another story based on true facts and things that went bump in the night at Hoar Cross Hall, to get you in the mood for all those Christmas ghost stories you'll be watching this season! Hope you don't get too scared!
The typewriter keys clattered away as Viv wrote her story. It was coming along nicely and she was feeling pleased with herself. The attic room that she and her brothers had made into their ‘den’ was ideal for getting away from everybody and having some peace and quiet and she quite forgot about the time as she lost herself in the plot. Suddenly she looked up and realized how dark it was getting; the December nights were pulli...
Hickleton Hall and the Meynells #38
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th January 2023 in Growing Up in a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,lewis carroll,alice through the looking glass,alice in wonderland,Dunkirk,Viscount Halifax,Christ Church,second world war,Viceroy of india,Chancellor of the Exchequer
This lovely Grade II listed Georgian house in South Yorkshire was once the childhood home of The Honourable Emily Charlotte Meynell who married Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross and who, together with Hugo, built Hoar Cross Hall to be their family home in 1873, a hundred years before my family lived there.
The original house was called Hickleton Palace and had been built for Judge Francis Rodes in the 16th century but in 1745 Hickleton Hall was built just to the south of this house after the estate was bought by Godfrey Wentworth in about 1730. Thirty years later he extended the house and added two low wings, one either side, and a servants wing (see header picture)...