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See you in Court #31

...the local pub in the village. When we walked in of an evening, everyone was keen to know the latest updates on the divorce and we would spend half an hour telling them all the news – it was like a real life soap opera! On Tuesday nights a bunch of the local businessmen would all meet up for a drink. These men were all middle aged, respectable professionals but on a Tuesday night they turned into a bunch of mad men! We loved it of course, being young and wanting to forget our miserable home life – what better way than a bit of madness? And so, after quite a few drinks, these guys would decide to take sides and have a fight. They piled all the furniture up at...

Here comes the bride (Part 1) #27

...up at the pub and started to do their act. The Landlady was a bit strait laced and ordered them all out so where to go now? They all decided to come back to the Hall as two of our friends now lived in the East Wing apartments, and they carried on with their party there.     When I came home and went up to bed, I passed the door leading to the apartments and could hear a lot of noise. I went into the East Wing and listened at the door; it sounded like they were having a lot more fun than me so in I went! The place was full of men watching the strippers and when I walked in all dressed up they thought another one had arrived until they realised it was me! K...

RAGS TO RICHES! #15

...it to the public and put all his antiques on display.  Perhaps there was something about his background that inspired him, without him realising.  He must have known about the stately home that his mother worked in as a young servant girl and the tragic death of his aristocratic father.  His life was coming full circle as his dream home came on the market in 1969 and he was in a position to buy it.  One way or another it seems that he was meant to live in a stately home! From the 1970's Hall brochure    To us children though it didn’t seem like an unusual way to live.  Our homes were always full of antique furniture and suits of armour so we didn...

"He's Behind You" #22

...de in the pub and asked him what had happened to the car – he’d noticed that the rear lights had been replaced.  He assumed that Kev had gone out on a jaunt ‘to impress his friends’ and had an accident.  Kev looked at him and thought, “If I tell him the truth, he’ll never believe me” so he just nodded and agreed that that was what had happened and apologised! Things like this were happening every week now at the Hall and when we called in at the Meynell everyone wanted to know the latest news on the warring parents.  The whole village knew what was going on of course and my mum would often ring the Police to say my dad was rampaging around the...

Rags to Riches #16

...it to the public and put all his antiques on display.  Perhaps there was something about his background that inspired him, without him realising.  He must have known about the stately home that his mother worked in as a young servant girl and the tragic death of his aristocratic father.  His life was coming full circle as his dream home came on the market in 1969 and he was in a position to buy it.  One way or another it seems that he was meant to live in a stately home! To us children though it didn’t seem like an unusual way to live.  Our homes were always full of antique furniture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it.  My bedroom h...

Rags to Riches #12

...it to the public and put all his antiques on display.  Perhaps there was something about his background that inspired him, without him realising.  He must have known about the stately home that his mother worked in as a young servant girl and the tragic death of his aristocratic father.  His life was coming full circle as his dream home came on the market in 1969 and he was in a position to buy it.  One way or another it seems that he was meant to live in a stately home! To us children though it didn’t seem like an unusual way to live.  Our homes were always full of antique furniture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it.  My bedroom h...