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What the Butler Saw! #42

Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th February 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,downton abbey,Carson the butler,London,servants ball,footmen,champagne,Diamond wedding,mailbag,dance,The Crown

Anyone who’s seen Downton Abbey will remember Carson the butler. He is exactly how a butler would have been in the 19th century, a grandSpan>, authoritarian figure, commandSpan>ing respect andSpan> awe andSpan> most of the servants would have been scared to death of upsetting him! He was dressed like a gentleman of the period andSpan> generally ran the household with an iron fist. Although most big houses had a house steward who was in charge of accounts andSpan> general running of the household, a butler was more commonly engaged by the wealthy. They usually started as footmen andSpan> worked their way up fro there. Most butlers stayed at the same household until they retired andSpan> probably...

Ghostbusters! #7

Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th July 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,ghost,Meynell,spooky,100 years,Dracula,Peter Cushing,Motor racing

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 day trying out a...

More Tea Vicar? #12

Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th July 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Emily Meynell,Meynell Ingram Arms,church of the holy angels,vicar,Cathedral of the MidlandSpan>s,New Years Eve,New Years Day

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 gas masks andSpan> field phones from World War 2. The old Servants Hall was now my dad’s workshop andSpan> he spent a lot of time down there restoring antiques to sell. He had one of the f...

Moving into the Manor #2

Posted by Viv Wilson on 21st October 2018 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Shardlow Motor Racing,Donington Park,Chester Zoo,Victorian,Uttoxeter

MOVING INTO THE MANOR: My parents took vacant possession of Hoar Cross Hall in 1970 andSpan> 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 andSpan> lots of outbuildings. This house was about 200 years old andSpan> 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 andSpan> 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 andSpan> before that he did motorcycle racing, often at nearby Donington Park. During the...

Reburbishing our Mansion #4

Posted by Viv Wilson on 4th November 2018 in Blogging | hoar cross hall,Victorian,Meynell,Chapel,Mission Impossible,armour,dungeon,execution chamber

REFURBISHING OUR MANSION : We moved into the Hall during the summer holidays andSpan> my parents quickly realised that they had a lot of work on their handSpan>s to make the place habitable as well as to earn some money from it. As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing andSpan> a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor rooms of each wing into three separate apartments; he had done this at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the rooms as the East Wing had four main rooms andSpan> two bathrooms already there, which would have been u...

Bacon's 'Essay on Gardens' # 56

Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell ingram,emily meynell,Country Life,temple newsam,pleached walks,fountains,Francis Bacon,Essay on Gardens,Italian gardens,elizabethan,The Crown,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton

Francis Bacon was born in 1561 andSpan> was 1st Viscount St Alban. He wrote his Essay on Gardens in 1625, a year before his death of pneumonia. He was also Lord Chancellor of EnglandSpan> under King James I andSpan> led the advancement of both natural philosophy andSpan> scientific method andSpan> his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. The essays he wrote between, mainly, 1612 andSpan> 1625 were about anything from love andSpan> marriage to superstitions to gardens andSpan> any subject in between! Bacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in the later essays andSpan> the 'Oxford Dictionary of Quotations' includes no fewer than 91 quotations...

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