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More tea vicar? #12

Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,church of the holy angels,meynell arms,Bodley,world war 2,famours five,vicar,gas masks,new years eve

MORE TEA VICAR? Life at Hoar Cross Hall was always busy but during the long summer holidays it was easy to get bored. As there was no public transport from Hoar Cross andSpan> no other families living nearby, we three children had to make our own entertainment andSpan> we were always having adventures andSpan> getting up to mischief – a bit like the Famous Five but without a dog! We would roam around the village or explore the basement. My dad was a hoarder andSpan> had kept all sorts of stuff over the years including his own gas mask andSpan> some field phones from World War 2. He had served in the army as a diSpatch rider during the war in North Africa, mixing with Ameri...

Ghostbusters #8

Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th May 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghostbusters,attics,basement,spooky,Victorian,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,kenny ball andSpan> his jazzmen,Gothic,motor racing

People were always coming to Hoar Cross Hall to either hire the house or to have a look around. In 1973, because of all the media interest in our ghosts, we had a couple of professional ghost hunters asking to stay over one night to try andSpan> find the source of the noises. They brought cases full of recording equipment andSpan> set it all up in one of the attic rooms. Rather them than me I thought! Then I had a brilliant idea andSpan> went off to tell my brother Gavin all about it. As mentioned in my first blog the attic andSpan> basement had a row of bells which the family used to summon the servants. Before the three men arrived we spent all day trying out all the bells to see...

The Kitchen Maid's Story #34

Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th April 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | meynell,hoar cross hall,University of East Anglia,Spa HotelSpan>,second world war,London season,Cook,Parliament

THE KITCHEN MAID’S STORY: If you were young, free andSpan> single – oh, andSpan> very well-to-do – the 1920s were the decade to be a part of. The upper classes had lots of time on their handSpan>s andSpan> enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre andSpan> jazz clubs. Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross Hall in the 1920s. The ‘depression’ after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home andSpan> many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, andSpan> she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French andSpan> music. However, the £5 bursary she got (equ...

The War Years andSpan> Beyond #39

Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th February 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Second World War,barometric,First World War,London,Red Cross,downton abbey,HotelSpan> andSpan> Spa,fradley aerodrome,keeping up with the aristocrats

...became a HotelSpan> andSpan> Spa in 1990 with a swimming pool in exactly the same location as where the monks were going to put theirs! andSpan> so onto 1970 when my family bought the Hall. Apparently my dad had seen a notice about the contents sale of Dr Gillies in 1963, andSpan> had shown an interest in the Hall back then. I imagine my mother said ‘No’ as she had two small children at that time! Mrs Meynell had kept his phone number andSpan> rang him up in 1969 to see if he was still interested in buying the Hall after the monks had left. This time he said ‘Yes’ andSpan> the rest, as they say, is history! This has now brought my blog full circle andSpan> if you would like to read it f...

The Kitchen Maid's Story

Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th September 1985 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,London,cook,Paliament,debutante,second world war,1920's,servant,aristocracy

...THE KITCHEN MAID’S STORY: If you were young, free andSpan> single – oh, andSpan> very well-to-do – the 1920s were the decade to be a part of. The upper classes had lots of time on their handSpan>s andSpan> enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre andSpan> jazz clubs. Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross Hall in the 1920s. The depression after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home andSpan> many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, andSpan> she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French andSpan> music. However, the £5 bursary she g...

Ghostbusters! #8

Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th October 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,ghost,bat,dracula,Kenny Ball andSpan> his Jazzmen,midnight,gothic,Meynell,horror

...GHOSTBUSTERS! People were always coming to Hoar Cross Hall to either hire the place or to have a look around. In 1973, because of all the media interest in our ghosts, we had a couple of professional ghost hunters asking to stay over one night to try andSpan> find the source of the noises. They brought cases full of recording equipment andSpan> set it all up in one of the attic rooms. Rather them than me I thought! Then I had a brilliant idea andSpan> went off to tell my brother Gavin all about it. As mentioned in my first blog the attic andSpan> basement had a row of bells which the family used to summon the servants. Before the three men arrived we spent all...

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