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Midnight pool parties #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th January 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Roman,toga,Meynell,Birmiingham,Meynell Arms
MIDNIGHT POOL PARTIES: After leaving school I spent a year at Burton-on-Trent Technical College studying to be a secretary but my year at college had come to an end - 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 (no doubt he was thinking about the petrol he would save too!)
Kev and the ba...Midnight Pool Parties #20
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th October 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,76 Club,Sex Pistols,Police,Drug squad,ghost,Frank Sinatra
MIDNIGHT POOL PARTIES: After leaving school I spent a year at Burton-on-Trent Technical College studying to be a secretary but my year at college had come to an end - 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 (no doubt he was thinking about the petrol he would save too!)
Kev and the band were...Midnight Pool Parties #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th September 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,gentry,Frank Sinatra,swimming pool,Meynell Ingram Arms,motor bike,ghost,Roman toga,solicitor
After leaving school I spent a year at Burton-on-Trent Technical College studying to be a secretary but my year at college had come to an end - now to find a job! It didn’t take too long as there was plenty of employment around in the seventies 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 our apartments into taking me, as they were going to Burton every Day as well, and it would save him coming out twice a Day (no doubt he was thinking about the petrol he would save too!)
Kev, my boyfriend, and the band were getting a fe...
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...
DIY Stately Home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Hoar Cross Hall,Meynell,Hessian Room,Damask Room,East Wing,West Wing,Visitors,Boot Boy,Execution Chamber,Kitchen,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Bridgerton
We moved into Hoar Cross Hall during the summer holiDays and my parents quickly realised they had a lot of work on their hands to make the place habitable as well as to earn some money from it. As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing and a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor rooms of each wing into three separate apartments; he had done this at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the rooms as the East Wing had four main rooms and two bathrooms already there, which would have been used as guest bedrooms in Victorian times. H...
Hysterical Productions #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st November 1974 in Early Days | mediaeval banquets,racing car,olympia,london,ira,birmingham,hoar cross hall
HYSTERICAL PRODUCTIONS: By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets and they were still going strong. Most of the original cast were still with us but we were on our second king now and also doing our own catering and bar, whereas when we first started, we had got a catering firm in to do it all. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII I am’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead.
But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly being chatted up by...