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Like Father, Like Sons #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th March 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Formula 1,Donington Park,Graham Hill,damon Hill,isport international,RAC Rally,Chasewater
...s and the Donington Park Championship in 1986. A year later he moved into Formula 3 and scored some points but struggled as he was badly underfunded. However, he was racing with people like Herbert, Martin Donnelly and Damon Hill, son of Graham Hill who my dad had raced with during his time on the racing circuits – how strange is that!
Gavin racing
At the end of 1987 he finished racing and went into engineering in Formula 3, then onto Formula Ople working for teams in Norfolk. Here he ran drivers to British and European championship success then went onto Formula 3000 (Formula 1 support) and won the championship in 2001 with the W...
Like Father, Like Sons #19
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th October 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,motor racing,Chasewater,Donington Park,Graham Hill,damon hill,Formula 2,Formula Ople,Williams Team
...s and the Donington Park Championship in 1986. A year later he moved into Formula 3 and scored some points but struggled as he was badly underfunded. However, he was racing with people like Herbert, Martin Donnelly and Damon Hill, son of Graham Hill who my dad had raced with during his time on the racing circuits – how strange is that!
Gavin in his FF2000
At the end of 1987 he finished racing and went into engineering in Formula 3, then onto Formula Ople working for teams in Norfolk. Here he ran drivers to British and European championship success then went onto Formula 3000 (Formula 1 support) and won the championship in 2001 with the Williams Jun...Like Father, Like Sons #20
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th September 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Chasewater,Silverstone,Donington Park,Lombard RAC rally,formula 2,Formula 1,Karting,Racing
...s and the Donington Park Championship in 1986. A year later he moved into Formula 3 and scored some points but struggled as he was badly underfunded. However, he was racing with people like Herbert, Martin Donnelly and Damon Hill, son of Graham Hill who my dad had raced with during his time on the racing circuits – how strange is that!
Gavin winning FF2000
At the end of 1987 he finished racing and went into engineering in Formula 3, then onto Formula Ople working for teams in Norfolk. Here he ran drivers to British and European championship success then went onto Formula 3000 (Formula 1 support) and won the championship in 2001 with the Williams Juni...
MOTOR RACING DAYS #9
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th February 1973 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,motor racing,pat ferguson,lotus,formula 3,formula 2,colditz,silverstone,mallory Park,chris meek
...MOTOR RACING DAYS: Although my blogs are about living at Hoar Cross Hall, I would just like to give a bit of background about my dad’s racing career in the years leading up to moving to the Hall as this will set the scene for later instalments of my story. As mentioned in my first blog my dad used to be a racing driver but he actually started off racing motor cycles. He had been a despatch rider in World War 2 in North Africa and after the war ended and he’d recovered from TB he decided to take up racing his bike as a hobby.
As he lived in Derby the nearest track was Donington Park and he raced there at the beginning of the 1950s. After that he move...
The War Years and Beyond #38
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th July 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Hollybush Park,Burton General Hospital,F W Lycett,Fradley aerodrome,Second world war,first world war,Lichfield
...THE WAR YEARS AND BEYOND: During the Second World War, life in country houses changed dramatically. It was no different at Hoar Cross. The flower borders on the main lawns were turfed over to reduce maintenance and vegetables were grown in areas formerly restricted to flowers. Evacuees from Birmingham came to stay for the duration of the war and they lived in the basement, as it was considered to be the safest place. I imagine that they must have been in the care of the servants as they were living amongst them but it must also have been quite exciting for them to move from a bombed out city to the relative safety of the countryside, althoug...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
...THE WAR YEARS AND BEYOND: During the Second World War, life in country houses changed dramatically. It was no different at Hoar Cross. The flower borders on the main lawns were turfed over to reduce maintenance and vegetables were grown in areas formerly restricted to flowers. Evacuees from Birmingham came to stay for the duration of the war and they lived in the basement, as it was considered to be the safest place. I imagine that they must have been in the care of the servants as they were living amongst them but it must also have been quite exciting for them to move from a bombed out city to the relative safety of the countryside, although they must ha...