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Things that go bump in the night #3
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghost,haunted,attic,typewriter,suits of armour,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,Downton Abbey
...like at a party. They couldn’t work out if it was birds nesting under the eaves so they slept in another room down the corridor to see if they still heard it – and sure enough, they did! What was going on? Had we disturbed some lost souls forever wandering in the attics?
One night my mum was woken up by the sight of a little girl ‘floating’ over the bed. She said the girl was wearing a long nightdress and mop cap and seemed to be stretching her arms out to my mum as if she was asking for help. She floated all around the bed scaring my mum half to death. Frantically she tried to wake my dad while the ghoulish girl reached out - by the time he was awake t...
The life and times of an upper class family #44
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd March 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell Ingram,hickleton hall,viscount halifax,Earl Grey,earl of crawford,lady elizabeth bowes-lyon,Glamis Castle,downton abbey,The Crown
...a little party piece was put on for them and other guests present. This was a minuet performed by ten-year-old Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and her younger brother David. That little girl would become the future Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Co-incidentally Lady Mary's sister Annie had married Frank Bowes-Lyon in 1883 and Lady Elizabeth was to become their niece, the daughter of Frank's older brother Claude, who would later become the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
The 10 year old Queen Mother with brother David
And so therein lies a link to the royal family from a family living at Hoar Cross Hall!
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Anyone for Tennis? #96
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th June 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,wimbledon,all england lawn tennis and croquet club,downton abbey,History,Period drama,Meynell,queen mother,tennis court,mediaval,Henry VIII,hampton court,Ballroom,Balls
...end house party on the tennis courts!
I remember Mrs Meynell recalling a funny story about when they moved out of the Hall to a smaller house in the neighbouring village. Apparently her husband had come home one day to tell her he’d bought the house (without even consulting her) and the reason was that it had hard tennis courts, 'so much better than our grass ones' he told her! How different things were in those days – however, the servants were very pleased about the move as it meant less rooms to clean!
And also less mowing now that they had hard courts!
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