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Moving Out #29
Posted by Viv Wilson on 29th November 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,go-karting,antiques,Derby,Ferrari,Burton-on-Trent,Police
...esting â€lots’ it had, quite a few of our well-to-do friends were there too. My dad was also there and told us he’d bought an oven for our new house. He couldn’t wait to tell us that it had only cost him ÂŁ1. Even in those days ÂŁ1 was ridiculously cheap, especially for an oven! He said it was in one of the outbuildings so we didn’t actually see it until the end of the auction. By then my dad had gone home so we set off to find our oven, congratulating ourselves on getting such a bargain. But when we saw it standing in the corner of a shed covered in cobwebs and full of rust our hearts sank. It must have been at least twenty years old and probably didnâ...
The Schoolroom Maid's Story #36
Posted by Viv Wilson on 9th January 2022 in Growing Up In Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,spanish ambassador,Earl and Countess of Lichfield,Earl and Countess of Bradford,Christmas,Skegness,Bridgerton,Downton Abbey,Dorothy Meynell
...cked with lots of photographs from the times.Keep an eye out for it! ...
Skools out for Summer #98
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th August 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,barons eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,downton abbey,period drama,history,ghosts,library,Spain,Majorca,greece,portugal,morroco,mediaeval banquets,bullfight,camels,stately home,my dad bought a mansion,holiday,summer
...they had lots of climbing frames and slides.Â
The private road also joined up to our woods near the driveway and this is the road I walked along every day, up to the main road, to catch the bus to school in nearby Uttoxeter. It was about half a mile but I hated walking through the woods, especially in the winter when the mornings were darker. One day, whilst walking round Uttoxeter at lunchtime, I saw a newspaper board telling everyone about a streaker that had run through the town the day before – what was this? A man running naked for the fun of it? On further investigation I found that this was the latest craze from America – but why anyone wou...
What the Butler Saw! #37
Posted by Viv Wilson on 31st January 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Downton Abbey,butler,footman,Christmas
...cked with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...
Gardeners' World #38
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th February 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,gardens,Home Farm,Long Gallery,Christmas,Bridgerton,Keeping up with the Aristocrats,first world war,World War II
...cked with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...
Temple Newsam and the Meynells #40
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th February 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell Ingram,Temple Newsam,history,Jacobean,hugo meynell,keeping up with the aristocrats,Downton Abbey
...cked with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!
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