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Moving Into a Mansion #67
Posted by Viv Wilson on 15th July 1970 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,barons eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,bonnie prince charlie,oliver twist,Council tax,donington park,mallory park,silverstone,downton abbey,meynell ingram,Meynell ingram arms pub
...in nearby Uttoxeter – well I say nearby but it was actually about 10 miles away and I had to catch a double decker bus to get there. At least the school bus hadn’t been cancelled!
My brother went to the local primary school down the hill from our house. As the winter drew nearer it got incredibly cold in the house as the old Victorian heating system had long since broken down and our evenings were spent huddled together in one room with an electric fire to keep us warm. Oh how I laughed at all my school friends who thought we lived in the lap of luxury with servants waiting on us hand and foot just because we lived in a stately home – if only they...
VENTURES NEW #10
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st March 1973 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,suits of armour,coombe abbey,mediaeval banquets,jcb
...in nearby Uttoxeter, heard that we were planning to run banquets and booked a private one exclusively for their US division. My parents knew Joe Bamford (the JCB owner) quite well and I think my dad hoped that I would one day marry his son and invited him to one or two balls that we had at the Hall, but I was still quite young and nothing came of it. The Bamford’s banquet was hugely successful and they came back a few more times (see pic below) – the Americans of course thoroughly enjoyed being in a stately home and asked my dad if he was the butler! He didn’t take too kindly to that but they were more impressed when they found out that he was the ow...
Eat, drink and be merry! #10
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th December 2018 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,sothebys,Christies,rolls royce,coombe abbey,JCB,banquets
...in nearby Uttoxeter, heard that we were planning to run banquets and booked a private one exclusively for their US division. My parents knew Joe Bamford (the JCB owner) quite well and I think my dad hoped that I would one day marry his son and invited him to one or two balls that we had at the Hall, but I was still quite young and nothing came of it. The Bamford’s banquet was hugely successful and they came back a few more times – the Americans of course thoroughly enjoyed being in a stately home and asked my dad if he was the butler because he was wearing a dinner jacket with black tie! He didn’t take too kindly to that but they were more impresse...
Becoming a rock chick #18
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th February 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,easy rider,new year\'s eve,The Who,Dr Feelgood,burton on trent,steelers wheel,doobie brothers
...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 in Uttoxeter which still had wooden desks with inkwells in them! Even the teachers wore their mortar boards and gowns just like the ones at Eton and Harrow – or the Beano! However, in the last two years there I had made a few good friends and we would go into town every lunch time to meet up with a group of guys that worked at the local J. C. Bamford 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...Becoming a rock chick #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | burton on trent,christmas,Morecambe & Wise,76 Club,Steve Miller Band,Doobie Brothers,Steely Dan,hippies
...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 in Uttoxeter which still had wooden desks with inkwells in them! Even the teachers wore their mortar boards and gowns just like the ones at Eton and Harrow – or the Beano! However, in the last two years there I had made a few good friends and we would go into town every lunch time to meet up with a group of guys that worked at the local J. C. Bamford 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 to see live musi...