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Coming Of Age #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th June 1976 in Early days | hoar cross hAll,party,hippy venue,1970's,businesses,roman,toga,moat,stately home,swimming,pool,parties,birmingham,sex pistols,punk,music,band
COMING OF AGE: My year at college had come to an end and I was now a fully fledged secretary. Now to find a job! It didn’t take too long as there was plenty of employment around in those days and I was soon offered a position with a smAll engineering firm in Burton. As I didn’t drive there was still the problem of me getting to work and dad managed to talk the residents of the apartments into taking me, as they were going to Burton every day as well, and it would save him coming out twice a day!
Kev and the band were getting a few gigs around the area and after singing with them for a little while I gave it up and let a more professional singer ta...
The Kitchen Maid's Story
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th September 1985 in Early days | hoar cross hAll,London,cook,Paliament,debutante,second world war,1920's,servant,aristocracy
THE KITCHEN MAID’S STORY: If you were young, free and single – oh, and very well-to-do – the 1920s were the decade to be a part of. The upper classes had lots of time on their hands and enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre and jazz clubs.
Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross HAll in the 1920s. The depression after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home and many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, and she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French and music. However, the £5 bursary she g...
The Kitchen Maid's Story #35
Posted by Viv Wilson on 16th June 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,Meynell,first world war,second world war,London,Parliament,Glasgow,butler
THE KITCHEN MAID’S STORY: If you were young, free and single – oh, and very well-to-do – the 1920s was the decade to live in! The upper classes had lots of time on their hands and enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre and jazz clubs.
Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross HAll in the 1920s. The ‘depression’ after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home and many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, and she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French and music. However, the £5 bursary she g...The Kitchen Maid's Story #34
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th April 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | meynell,hoar cross hAll,University of East Anglia,spa hotel,second world war,London season,Cook,Parliament
THE KITCHEN MAID’S STORY: If you were young, free and single – oh, and very well-to-do – the 1920s were the decade to be a part of. The upper classes had lots of time on their hands and enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre and jazz clubs.
Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross HAll in the 1920s. The ‘depression’ after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home and many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, and she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French and music. However, the £5 bursary she got (equ...The Kitchen Maid's Story #37
Posted by Viv Wilson on 21st February 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll,Meynell,servant,lady dorothy,first world war,Glasgow University,Rolls Royce,1920s
THE KITCHEN MAID’S STORY: If you were young, free and single – oh, and very well-to-do – the 1920s were the decade to be a part of. The upper classes had lots of time on their hands and enjoyed post-First World War delights such as the theatre and jazz clubs.
Not so for the lower classes, in particular a young girl who was to become the kitchen maid at Hoar Cross HAll in the 1920s. The ‘depression’ after the First World War brought stark poverty to her home and many like her. Her name was Jean Rennie, and she was extremely intelligent having won a scholarship to Glasgow University to study French and music. However, the £5 bursary she got was ta...
Meet the Neighbours - Alton Towers #82
Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th July 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hAll spa hotel,barons eden,victorian,Alton Towers,Earl of Shrewsbury,History,bAlloon festival,English Civil War,Norman conquest,Iron Age,Crusades,stately home,mansion
When you say the name ‘Alton Towers’ most people in the UK will think of the theme park with spectacular rollercoaster rides. It reAlly has changed beyond All recognition to the days when I used to go there back in the 1970s. In those days it was a lovely house set in beautiful grounds with a few fairground rides to one side of the car park! Well, it still is a lovely place to visit but the rides have taken over now so that people only think of it as a theme park with fantasticAlly themed hotels and an enchanted village!
However, this estate started life as an Iron Age Fort built on Bunbury Hill. Then later on in the 11th century, Alton Castle was bui...