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Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th January 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell,fox hunting,quorn hall,temple newsam,emily meynell,bowes-lyon,Eton college
...es. The monks had full use of the Hall and lived in the Lodge and Gatehouse. Before they received the funding they started their building work, demolishing the kitchens and laundry rooms at one end of the house as this was going to be a swimming pool. However, the funding never transpired and they were asked to leave in 1969, leaving the house unfinished and the gardens in sad neglect.
In 1970 my parents, William and Gwynyth Bickerton-Jones bought the Hall and we settled there for nearly 20 years until it was sold and became the Spa Hotel that you see today.
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THE RENOVATIONS BEGIN #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st September 1970 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,living in a stately home,hoar cross hall blog,1970's,growing up in a stately home,renovations
...group of monks who were hoping to buy the Hall back in the sixties. I’ll never understand why they were allowed to knock down part of a beautiful house before they even bought it and this end of the house was now a rough area used for parking. You could still see the doors to the Boot Room, the Flower Room and the Boiler Room and this is where my dad got the idea of making one of these rooms into a special attraction for the visitors when the house was eventually opened to the public – a dungeon with an “Execution Chamber”! These rooms were underground, underneath the terrace, so my dad dug a hole through the ground and made an opening into the Fl...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #11
Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,first world war,second world war,christian community,Goshen,El Alamein,HRH Princess Alice,Earl of Dartmouth
...es. The monks had full use of the Hall and lived in the Lodge and Gatehouse. Before they received the funding they started their building work, demolishing the kitchens and laundry rooms at one end of the house as this was going to be a swimming pool. However, the funding never transpired and they were asked to leave in 1969, leaving the house unfinished and the gardens in sad neglect.
In 1970 my parents, William and Gwynyth Bickerton-Jones bought the Hall and we settled there for nearly 20 years until it was sold and became the Spa Hotel that you see today.
Don’t miss next’s week’s instalment: Rags to Riches If you would like to follow my story...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #13
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Quorn hunt,fox huntiing,william the conqueror,Florence,mediterranean,River Nile,British Empire
...nies. The monks had full use of the Hall and lived in the Lodge and Gatehouse. Before they received the funding they started their building work, demolishing the kitchens and laundry rooms at one end of the house as this was going to be a swimming pool. However, the funding never transpired and they were asked to leave in 1969, leaving the house unfinished and the gardens in sad neglect.
In 1970 my parents, William and Gwynyth Bickerton-Jones bought the Hall and we settled there for nearly 20 years until it was sold and became the Spa Hotel that you see today.
Don’t miss next’s week’s instalment: Rags to Riches
If you would like to follow my story from...
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
...group of monks who were hoping to buy the Hall back in the sixties. I’ll never understand why they were allowed to knock down part of a beautiful house before they even bought it and this end of the house was now a rough area used for parking.
You could still see the doors to the Boot Room, the Flower Room and the Boiler Room and this is where my dad got the idea of making one of these rooms into a special attraction for the visitors when the house was eventually opened to the public – a dungeon with an “Execution Chamber”! These rooms were underground, underneath the terrace, so my dad dug a hole through the ground and made an opening into the F...DIY Stately Home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Hoar Cross Hall,Meynell,Hessian Room,Damask Room,East Wing,West Wing,Visitors,Boot Boy,Execution Chamber,Kitchen,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Bridgerton
...group of monks who were hoping to buy the Hall back in the sixties. I’ll never understand why they were allowed to knock down part of a beautiful house before they even bought it and this end of the house was now a rough area used for parking.
The demolished kitchens showing open fireplace
You could still see the doors to the Boot Room, the Flower Room and the Boiler Room as they had opened into the kitchen corridor before it was demolished; this is where my dad got the idea of making one of these rooms into a special attraction for the visitors when the house was eventually opened to the public – a dungeon with an “Execution Chamber”! These r...