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Hoar Cross Hall - A bit of History #54
Posted by Viv Wilson on 12th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,st james palace,first world war,second world war,military cross,Bishop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,church of the holy angels,mediterranean,the crown,downton abbey,my dad bought a mansion
Hoar Cross was part of NeedWood Forest, the 11th century lands of Henry de Ferrers. The land was passed down to Henry’s son and subsequent various people over the course of 500 years ending with the Webb family, around the 1730s, who bought the land and house known as the Manor of the Cross. This was quite a large house built on a hill near Yoxall (which is the village next to Hoar Cross). In 1740 the manor house was demolished and later the Hon. Charles Talbot bought the estate for £17,000. Eventually it was sold to Hugo Meynell, who already owned huge amounts of property all over the county and was now about to add another one to his portfolio.
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Alice - the ghost in the mirror #38
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th May 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,lewis carroll,Christ Church,Oxford,emily meynell,Hickleton Hall,Alice in Wonderland
...ildren of Charles Wood of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire. During the summer a friend of the children, Mary Heath, stayed at the hall and this is the little girl believed to be his inspiration for Alice. But also, the room in which he taught the children had a lovely mirror over the mantlepiece which is exactly the same as the picture of the mirror in his story ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. So it seems that lots of things from that time inspired him!
The Mad Hatter
When Charles Wood’s daughter Emily got married in 1863 she took the mirror with her to her new home, Hoar Cross Hall, and there it hung over the fireplace in the Library for many deca...
The Life and Times of an Upper Class Family #41
Posted by Viv Wilson on 12th April 2021 in Growing Up In Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,queen mother,Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,Earl of Crawford,Earl Grey
...THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN UPPER CLASS FAMILIY: On 11th August 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram married the Hon. Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bart, afterwards 1st Viscount Halifax. The Woods were an old gentry family, for many centuries respectable York merchants. They were later to turn grand upon the discovery of coal beneath their ancestral estates. This was the great Barnsley field, with several hundred acres of Britain's deepest and finest coal. Sir Charles Wood was created 1st Viscount Halifax in 1866 and had a very distinguished political career. The family seats of Garrowby, Pocklington and Hickleton (where Emily was born) h...
The life and times of an upper class family #42
Posted by Viv Wilson on 6th March 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Earl Grey,Earl Grey tea,Prime Minister,hickleton hall,Queen Mother,Scotland,keeping up with the aristocrats,Downton Abbey,My dad bought a mansion
...On 11th August 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram married the Hon. Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bart, afterwards 1st Viscount Halifax. The Woods were an old gentry family, for many centuries respectable York merchants. They were later to turn grand upon the discovery of coal beneath their ancestral estates. This was the great Barnsley field, with several hundred acres of Britain's deepest and finest coal. Sir Charles Wood was created 1st Viscount Halifax in 1866 and had a very distinguished political career. The family seats of Garrowby, Pocklington and Hickleton (where Emily was born) had been acquired by his father from the Wentworth family; t...Alice - the ghost in the mirror #26
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th October 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Mansion,lewis carroll,alice through the looking glass,alice in wonderland,Graham Phillips,Hickleton Hall,The Crown,Downton Abbey,Halloween,ghost
...ildren of Charles Wood of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire. During the summer a friend of the children, Mary Heath, stayed at the hall and this is the little girl believed to be his inspiration for Alice. But also, the room in which he taught the children had a lovely mirror over the mantlepiece which is exactly the same as the picture of the mirror in his story ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’. So it seems that lots of things from that time inspired him!
Alice in Lewis Carroll's book
When Charles Wood’s daughter Emily got married in 1863 she took the mirror with her to her new home, Hoar Cross Hall, and there it hung over the fireplace in the Li...
The life and times of an upper class family #44
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd March 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell Ingram,hickleton hall,viscount halifax,Earl Grey,earl of crawford,lady elizabeth bowes-lyon,Glamis Castle,downton abbey,The Crown
...On 11th August 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram married the Hon. Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bart, afterwards 1st Viscount Halifax. The Woods were an old gentry family, for many centuries respectable York merchants. They were later to turn grand upon the discovery of coal beneath their ancestral estates. This was the great Barnsley field, with several hundred acres of Britain's deepest and finest coal. Sir Charles Wood was created 1st Viscount Halifax in 1866 and had a very distinguished political career. The family seats of Garrowby, Pocklington and Hickleton (where Emily was born) had been acquired by his father from the Wentworth family; t...