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Suits you Sir! #22
Posted by Viv Wilson on 23rd September 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Bodley,suits of armour,Long Gallery,downton abbey,The Crown,Queen,Parrot,banquet,breastplate,church of the holy angels
...k form on Amazon - all my memoirs packed with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!...
See you in Court #27
Posted by Viv Wilson on 4th November 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,birmingham crown court,Police,burton-on-trent,sothebys auction house,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Judge,Barrister,keeping up with the aristocrats
...k form on Amazon - all my memoirs packed with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think! ...
Like Father, Like Sons #19
Posted by Viv Wilson on 2nd September 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Chasewater,motor racing,karting,Donington park,RAC Rally,FF2000,Formula 1
...k form on Amazon - all my memoirs packed with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think!
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A Home fit for a King #21
Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th September 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Buckingham Palace,The Crown,The Monarchy,King Charles III,prince of wales,duchy of cornwall,Queen Victoria,Downton Abbey,william the conqueror
...k form on Amazon - all my memoirs packed with lots of photographs from the times. Go check it out here and let me know what you think! ...
The Tax Man Cometh #29
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th November 2022 in Blogging | hoar cross hall,Meynell,duchy of cornwall,The Crown,The Church of the Holy Angels,Meynell Ingram Arms,Knighthood,Lotus Elite,british aristocracy,lord and lady,stately home,mansion,staffordshire,history,ghosts,ghost stories,spa hotel,mediaeval,antiques,suit of armour,hoar cross hall spa,stately home tour,manor house,abandoned mansion,abandoned mansion uk,derelict mansion,abandoned millionaire mansion,downton abbey a new era,stately homes of england,stately home where I grew up,My Dad Bought a Mansion,lady diana,the crown season 5 netflix uk,royal household,the tax man
...My parents’ court case was finally over and my dad had six months to leave the family home, Hoar Cross Hall. In the meantime my mum had to find the funds to buy him out and he had to find another house to live in. He also had an awful lot of stuff to move too! He eventually found a house in nearby Burton-on-Trent but as it was obviously a lot smaller he had to get rid of a lot of his possessions and one of the first things to go was his Lotus Elite. He advertised it in the local paper but instead of getting a phone call from a likely buyer, the first call was from the local tax office. Back in those days they used to check advertisements in the newspapers and...
Get me to the church on time! #30
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th November 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,church of the holy angels,burton on trent,birmingham,ghost,downton abbey,historic houses,stag and hen party,suits of armour
...My dad was having to move out of Hoar Cross Hall and we had decided to bring our wedding forward so we that we could get married in the church in the grounds and then have the reception afterwards in the Hall, which was after all our family home. The wedding preparations were going quite well and as we knew lots of musicians it wasn’t hard to find a local band and a DJ to do the disco. A friend of my dad’s offered to do the catering and the bar was set up with plenty of kegs from the local brewery in Burton on Trent. I had two bridesmaids and we all went to Birmingham one day to choose our dresses and shoes – it was all kept very simple really as I had no...