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More Tea Vicar? #13
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th January 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,New Year's Eve,Scottish,1973,Christmas,Meynell
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 and no other families living nearby, we three children had to make our own entertainment and we were always having adventures and 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 and had kept All sorts of stuff over the years including gas masks and field phones from World War 2. The old Servants HAll was now my dad’s workshop and he spent a lot of time down there restoring...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 and no other families living nearby, we three children had to make our own entertainment and we were always having adventures and 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 and had kept All sorts of stuff over the years including his own gas mask and 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...More tea Vicar? #11
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th August 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,new year\'s eve,birthday,midnight,Scottish,church,Easter,Christmas
MORE TEA VICAR? During the long summer holidays it was easy to get bored. As there was no public transport from Hoar Cross and no children living nearby, we three children had to make our own entertainment and we were always having adventures and 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 and had kept All sorts of stuff over the years including gas masks and field phones from World War 2. The old Servants HAll was now my dad’s workshop and he spent a lot of time down there restoring antiques to sell. He had one of the field phones in his workshop...
The Church of the Holy Angels #55
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,meynell ingram,emily meynell,hugo meynell,George Bodley,Bishop of Lichfield,ecclesiastical,the church of the holy angels,The Sacred Faith,wedding,vicar,history,The Crown,Downton Abbey,Gardens
Many stately homes had churches built near them or even a chapel inside them, as was done at Hoar Cross HAll. However, the church that was built in the grounds of the HAll became known as 'The Cathedral of the Midlands' due to its magnificent structure and is generAlly regarded as one of the finest Victorian churches in the country. It resembles a cathedral in miniature, being more like an English minster than a humble village church.
When Emily Meynell Ingram's husband, Hugo died in 1871 from a hunting accident, she wanted to keep his memory alive. They had only been married for eight years and she had no children to comfort her and so in 1872 she commissioned...
Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st January 1973 in Early days | calendar girls,hoar cross hAll,hoar cross hAll blog,glamour photography,ha ha wAll,staffordshire,magazine,period drama
CALENDAR GIRLS AND FRONT COVERS: OccasionAlly people would hire the HAll and during the summer of 1973 a photographer from London hired the place for a day. He brought two models with him, one English and one German and they were taking photos for a glamour calendar. We were told to keep right out of the way as they were taking photos in the gardens as well as the house. NaturAlly we wanted to see everything that was going on and Gavin especiAlly was very keen to watch – so much so that he found a pair of binoculars to follow All the proceedings!
We managed to find All sorts of hiding places eventuAlly settling in our attic room to keep tabs on everyt...
The tax man cometh! #29
Posted by Viv Wilson on 6th May 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,meynell arms,burton on trent,Duchy of CornwAll,lotus elite,tax office,HMRC
THE TAX MAN COMETH: My parents’ court case was finAlly over and my dad had six months to leave the house. In the meantime my mum had to find the funds to buy him out and he had to find another house to live in. He also had an awful lot of stuff to move too! He eventuAlly found a house in nearby Burton-on-Trent but as it was obviously a lot smAller he had to get rid of a lot of his possessions and one of the first things to go was his Lotus Elite. He advertised it in the local paper but instead of getting a phone cAll from a likely buyer, the first cAll was from the local tax office. Back in those days they used to check advertisements in the news...