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Ghouls Galore #18
Posted by Viv Wilson on 6th September 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghosts,ghouls,attic,basement,Downton Abbey,Bridgerton,The Crown,meynell ingram arms,seance,candlelight,bats
One of the great things about living in a stately home is that you can have a wild party with the loudest of music – and no-one will hear it! I was now going out with Kev, whom I had met at college. Mum was a bit disappointed that my sensible boyfriend and I had parted company after 18 months of an on/off relationship but she accepted Kev into the fold and eventually met all the other members of the band. I think she wanted to put her mind at rest that they were a bunch of nice lads and not a drug crazed rock band eating bats! Which of course they were! No – I’m only kidding! After the awful split up at Christmas my parents were now living at each end of t...
Ghouls Galore! #18
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th August 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghosts,attic,basement,seance,candle,keeping up with the aristocrats,downton abbey,bridgerton
One of the great things about living in a stately home is that you can have a wild party with the loudest of music – and no-one will hear it! I was now going out with Kev, whom I had met at college. Mum was a bit disappointed that my sensible boyfriend and I had parted company after 18 months of an on/off relationship but she accepted Kev into the fold and eventually met all the other members of the band. I think she wanted to put her mind at rest that they were a bunch of nice lads and not a drug crazed rock band eating bats! Which of course they were! No – I’m only kidding! After the awful split up at Christmas my parents were now living at each end of t...
Mediaeval Weaponry #84
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th September 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,History,mediaeval banquets,mediaeval weaponry,swords,halberds,suits of armour,daggars,Tudors,stately homes,downton abbey,aristocracy,middle ages,my dad bought a mansion
When we moved to Hoar Cross Hall in the 1970s, my father owned the largest private collection of arms and armour in the UK at that time! He owned about 20 suits of armour and numerous items of ‘arms’, which is another word for weapons. The word ‘arms’ comes from the Latin ‘arma’ which means ‘tools of war’; this word passed into the English language from the French in 1200.
Mediaeval weapons consisted of halberds, double-edged swords, daggers, battle axes, crossbows and longbows to name but a few, these being the most common. Knives were also used but mainly for eating and repairing, although I’m sure they got to be used as weapons too...