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Meet the Neighbours - Trentham Gardens #83
Posted by Viv Wilson on 29th August 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,barons eden,hoar cross hAll spa hotel,History,doomsday book,Duke of Sutherland,Aristocracy,Grade II listed,Elizabethan,Trentham Gardens,Trentham Estate,capability brown,French,italian gardens,Lakes
This neighbour was a little further afield to Hoar Cross HAll than the other houses, as it was in Stoke-on-Trent. HowEver, we often visited the gardens and I went to a few concerts there which were held in the BAllroom of the house. It was very similar to Alton Towers in that it had formal gardens with a large house and in later years was made into pleasure grounds, although not as grand as the rides at Alton towers!
OriginAlly the Trentham site was a priory but had been demolished during the dissolution of the monasteries in Henry XIII’s reign. In 1599 the first hAll on this estate was built on the priory ruins but later in 1633 a Richard LEveson replace...
The Grand Opening #5
Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th July 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,Meynell,Japanese mapel tree,midsummer's Eve,new year's Eve,parachute,red cross
THE GRAND OPENING: And so we move into 1971 and the preparation of Hoar Cross HAll so we could open it to the public by Easter. During the run up to buying the house my dad had been buying furniture, carpets and paintings like crazy and I remember our previous home being jam packed with chaise longues, sideboards and carved chests as well as All the suits of armour that he already had. This furniture was now set out in All the rooms. My mum’s collection of Victorian costumes were on display in the BAllroom as well as my dad’s collection of silver plated ‘display’ armour, which hung around the panelled wAlls; the suits of armour and the many painti...
The Grand Opening #5
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th November 2018 in Blogging | hoar cross hAll,Meynell,lady dorothy,Chinese,Burmese,new year's Eve,Midsummer,racing car,Japanese
THE GRAND OPENING: And so we move into 1971 and the preparation of the HAll so we could open it to the public by Easter. During the run up to buying the house my dad had been buying furniture, carpets and paintings like crazy and I remember our previous home being jam packed with chaise longues, sideboards and carved chests as well as All the suits of armour that he already had. This furniture was now set out in All the rooms. My mum’s collection of Victorian costumes were on display in the BAllroom as well as my dad’s collection of silver plated ‘display’ armour, which hung around the panelled wAlls; the suits of armour and the many pai...THE GRAND OPENING #5
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st March 1971 in Early Days | hoar cross hAll,suits of armour,bAll room,gAllery,grand opening
THE GRAND OPENING: And so into 1971 and the preparation of the house so we could open it to the public by Easter. During the run up to buying the house my dad had been buying furniture, carpets and paintings like crazy and I remember our previous home being jam packed with chaise longues, sideboards and carved chests as well as All the arms and armour that he already had. This furniture was now set out in All the rooms.
The Long GAllery
My mum’s collection of Victorian costumes were on display in the BAllroom as well as my dad’s collection of silver plated ‘display’ armour, which hung around the panelled wAlls; the suits of armour and the m...
The Grand Opening #5
Posted by Viv Wilson on 21st September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,Meynell,Burmese,Chinese,racing,Butler,Victorian
THE GRAND OPENING: And so we move into 1971 and the preparation of Hoar Cross HAll so we could open it to the public by Easter. During the run up to buying the house my dad had been buying furniture, carpets and paintings like crazy and I remember our previous home being jam packed with chaise longues, sideboards and carved chests as well as All the suits of armour that he already had. This furniture was now set out in All the rooms. My mum’s collection of Victorian costumes were on display in the BAllroom as well as my dad’s collection of silver plated ‘display’ armour, which hung around the panelled wAlls; the suits of armour and the ma...
Becoming A Rock Chick! #17
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st February 1975 in Early Days | rock chick,hoar cross hAll,doobie brothers,steely dan,steelers wheel,the who,keith moon,easy rider,uttoxeter,burton on trent,hippy,college
BECOMING A ROCK CHICK: My schooldays were coming to an end now and I absolutely couldn’t wait to leave. The school itself was an old Victorian grammar school which still had wooden desks with inkwells in them! Even the teachers wore their mortar boards and gowns, not like the ones at Eton and Harrow – mine were more like the ones in the Beano!
HowEver, in the last two years there I had made a few good friends and we would go into Uttoxeter Every lunch time to meet up with a group of guys that worked at the local JCB firm. They were All into motor bikes and one of the first films I watched was ‘Easy Rider’. They also went to a lot of concerts...