Story Search Results
294 results for story
found
within the Story
6 displayed out of 294 (0.04seconds)Page 23 of 49
Christmas High Jinks! #29
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th December 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,new years eve,midsummer's eve,grave,candles,verger,bell-ringers,carol service
...follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
Merry Christmas everyone!
...
A New Year Calamity! #30
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd January 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,new years eve,auld lang syne,dancing,band,Lichfield,70s,Scottish
...follow my story from the beginning, please click here and feel free to share with your friends
...
The War Years and Beyond #40
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th March 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,fradley aerodrome,first world war,second world war,Auxiliary Red Cross Hospital,Hollybush Park,monks
...s a funny story about how her husband had come home one day and told her he had bought another house. He was very excited about the ‘hard tennis courts, so much better than our grass ones’. The servants were also excited to have a smaller house to clean! How times have changed! The header photo is a last picture of the five Meynell children before they moved - what a charming sight with the boys on their ponies protecting their little sisters in the middle!
The Hall and contents were put up for sale after the family left in 1952 but the house failed to sell so they rented it out to a Dr Gillies and his wife, Maimi. He was a highly regarded consultant at...
An Englishman's Home is his Mansion! #2
Posted by Viv Wilson on 2nd May 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,shardlow motor racing,chester zoo,Bonnie Prince Charlie,Victorian,council tax,ghost,Oliver Twist
...AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME IS HIS MANSION!
My parents took vacant possession of Hoar Cross Hall in 1970 and the whole process of moving house was done over the summer months. We lived about 20 miles away in an old vicarage with a large garden and lots of outbuildings. This house was about 200 years old and they say Bonnie Prince Charlie marched past it on his way to battle back in the day, for all you history buffs out there! Actually I love history and I think my interest was fuelled by living in these historic houses as a child. My dad used to be a racing driver in the 1950s and before that he did motorcycle racing, often at nearby Donnington Park. During the 1960s...
Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' #6
Posted by Viv Wilson on 30th May 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Hunting,shooting,fishing,carp pond,gun,brace of pheasants
...follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
Also, check out my video tour of Hoar Cross Hall as I re-visit my family home, click here to view it.
...
Ventures New! #10
Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th July 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,J C Bamford,Uttoxeter,banquet,King,jester,seventies,antiques
...follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
If you would like to view my 'Tour of the Hall' please click here
...