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Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' #6
Posted by Viv Wilson on 30th September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Hounds,bats,Henry VIII
...ses was a carp pond where they kept fish for the family to eat. Like everything else though it was empty and overgrown and full of weeds so no fishing for us, although we did try and find some fish in the big ponds in the woods but never did. In the main gardens there were two round lily ponds with a fountain in the middle which must have looked lovely in their day but like everything else they didn’t work. My dad did have a go at trying to make them work, even finding huge water tanks under the terraces which were the water supplies to the fountains but the pipes were rusted up so we left them alone.
However, in the garden which we used as our private...
Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' #6
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th July 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,Laughton Estate,bats,meynell arms,pheasants,hounds,fishing,gun
...ses was a carp pond where they kept fish for the family to eat. Like everything else though it was empty and overgrown and full of weeds so no fishing for us, although we did try and find some fish in the big ponds in the woods but never did. In the main gardens there were two round lily ponds with a fountain in the middle which must have looked lovely in their day but like everything else they didn’t work. My dad did have a go at trying to make them work, even finding huge water tanks under the terraces which were the water supplies to the fountains but the pipes were rusted up so we left them alone.
However, in the garden which we used as our private garden...