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Calendar Girls and Front Covers #6
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th July 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,models,gentlemen,glamour photography,ghostbusters,Staffordshire Magazine
CALENDAR GIRLS AND FRONT COVERS: During our time at Hoar Cross Hall people would occasionally hire the house for a day’s filming or whatever. During the summer of 1973 a photographer from London hired the place for a day and he brought two models with him, one English and one German, and they were taking photos for a glamour calendar. We were told to keep right out of the way as they were taking photos in the gardens as well as the house. Naturally we wanted to see everything that was going on and my younger brother Gavin especially was very keen to watch – so much so that he found a pair of binoculars to follow all the proceedings! We managed to find...
The Grand Opening #5
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Burmese,Chinese,Racing,Lady Dorothy,Red Cross Ball,Midsummer's Eve Ball,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,The Crown,Downton Abbey,World War Two
...adies and gentlemen took their afternoon strolls.
This is how the yew hedges once looked
We soon got used to having people wandering around our house, although they weren’t allowed upstairs. Gavin and I were quite the little monkeys and usually involved our little brother in our tricks too. We would hang over the balcony near the stairs and watch people walk by then drop things near them or make funny noises. Once Gavin was holding an ice cream and he held it over the balustrade and let it drip – unfortunately for the bald headed man underneath! We thought it was hilarious!
Our bedrooms overlooked the terrace where most of the visitors walked abou...The Chinese Room #71
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st December 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,chinese,japanese,armour,mediaval,Yoki Yasutsuna,sword,Burmese,Great Hall,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Covid-19
...ace where gentlemen talked and smoked away from the ladies. Nowadays a Dining Room tends to be used for special occasions such as Christmas and most families eat in the kitchen if they have the room to do so. Although, of course, no-one could have predicted that so many Dining Rooms became home offices during the Covid-19 pandemic!
Now we are in the month of December, the next few blogs will have a Christmas theme - maybe even a ghostly one!
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