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The Long Gallery #67
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th October 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,long gallery,chapel,library,elizabethan,jacobean,monasteries,Abbeys,Chatsworth House,thornbury castle,downton abbey,The crown
...private apartments. My father’s collection of arms and armour, dating from the 14th to the 17th century, was displayed in this room against the oak panelling and was one of the largest private collections in the country at that time (see header picture). However, all those metal suits lining the walls staring back at me through the slits in their visors used to terrify me as a child and I would avoid looking at them when I went up the stairs to bed!
The Long Gallery in the 1970s
So why did country houses have such long rooms? Long Galleries were popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses and normally placed on the highest reception floor ru...
Lest we forget #86
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th November 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Barons Eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,remembrance day,Poppy day,meynell ingram,al alamein,north africa,RASC,military cross,Frist World War,Second World War,Volunteer,Hitler,Amazon,History,TB,disabled,invalid,my dad bought a mansion,Red Cross
...rld War started in 1939 the next generation of Meynells stepped up to help out. Francis had married Lady Dorothy and their eldest son Hugo also served as an officer and was awardedthe Military Cross, although he was seriously injured at Al Alamein leading to his early death in 1960. Their daughter, also Dorothy, moved back to Hoar Cross at the outbreak of war and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John, which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy.
An overseas military group (from the Meynells' photos)
My own father served in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) as a despatch rider because he owned a motor bike...Celebrating VE Day #94
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th May 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,barons eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,History,World War 2,World War 1,V E Day,D Day,Great Britain,TB,downton Abbey,Motor bike,RASC,Americans,Aeroplanes,period drama,V J Day,Victory,Meynell,wartime
...As a way of commemorating V. E. Day I have re-posted my blog from November's Remembrance Day which tells of the sacrifice that the men of the Meynell family made during both world wars as well as the many thousands of others who took part. During the two World Wars the Meynell family of Hoar Cross Hall served their country alongside many others from all walks of life. After each war there was huge social upheaval, especially for women, who had been doing what was traditionally 'men's work' during the war and weren't prepared to go back to domestic roles. At the time of the First World War Frederick Meynell and Lady Mary Meynell were living at the Hall with...