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Moving Out #29
Posted by Viv Wilson on 29th November 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,go-karting,antiques,Derby,Ferrari,Burton-on-Trent,Police
...mbers and carpenters. When it was all finished they put in their bills only to find out that the band were planning to leave the country – without paying anyone!
The builders were none too pleased about this and went round to the newly finished house to take back anything they could find that was theirs – they also slashed the tyres on the Ferrari. These were not people to mess around with! Kev decided there and then not to do any more work with my dad’s friends and we moved on to other things. About a year after we got married Kev set up his own electrical and plumbing business with a colleague and I joined the team a few months later when I was made red...
Gardeners' World #38
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th February 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,gardens,Home Farm,Long Gallery,Christmas,Bridgerton,Keeping up with the Aristocrats,first world war,World War II
...hatchers, carpenters, a joiner, plumber and an electrician. They looked after the maintenance of the house and workers’ cottages, and the tenanted properties.
If the butler was an important figure inside the house, the head gardener had as much authority outside. Even the mistress of the house was unable to enter the nursery garden without his permission, and to help herself to his produce would have been unthinkable. Only the head gardener had the key and the door was always kept locked outside working hours!
The East Front of the Hall - what lovely borders!
Around Christmas time, all the local trades’ people who supplied the house, were invi...