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The graveyard shift #24

...over the West Wing apartment when the tenants left, leaving my dad with one less rental income.  She was also putting Yale locks on all the rooms that she used in the house as well as any storage rooms used for the banquets.  This infuriated my dad who obviously didn’t have access to them once the locks went on.  One of these rooms was the cupboard off the Entrance Hall which held the meter boxes, so we now had no access to the electrics if anything went wrong – or if we wanted to sabotage the banquets again!   Kev and I on the Bembo    I mentioned in previous blogs how my mum would always call the Police to try and get my dad arrested.  As t...

See you in Court #27

...ve in the West Wing Apartment and was now seeing the singer who sang at the banquets.  My dad sat on his own most nights with only the parrot for company.  When he found out about the singer it started a fresh load of outbursts from him as he now felt that the pair of them were trying to take his house and business off him!  He constantly ranted on about it and often threatened to shoot the singer with his gun – I don’t think he would have done but then again, with his temper, who knows!  This latest twist in the story did nothing for my dad’s sanity and my mum was still hoping to have him committed and kept making appointments for him with the psychia...

The Graveyard Shift #23

...over the West Wing apartment when the tenants left, leaving my dad with one less rental income. She was also putting Yale locks on all the rooms that she used in the house as well as any storage rooms used for the banquets. This infuriated my dad who obviously didn’t have access to them once the locks went on. One of these rooms was the cupboard off the Entrance Hall which held the meter boxes, so we now had no access to the electrics if anything went wrong – or if we wanted to sabotage the banquets again!   Kev and I on The Bembo, Caernarvon I mentioned in previous blogs how my mum would always call the Police to try and get my dad arrested. As thi...

See you in Court #31

...ve in the West Wing Apartment and was now seeing the singer who sang at the banquets. My dad sat on his own most nights with only the parrot for company. When he found out about the singer it started a fresh load of outbursts from him as he now felt that the pair of them were trying to take his house and business off him! He constantly ranted on about it and often threatened to shoot the singer with his gun – I don’t think he would have done but then again, with his temper, who knows! This latest twist in the story did nothing for my dad’s sanity and my mum was still hoping to have him committed and kept making appointments for him with the psychiatrist. O...

Meet the Neighbours - Coombe Abbey # 81

...ings, the West Wing being one in particular.  The famous landscape gardener, ‘Capability’ Brown, re-designed the surrounding gardens and land and other parts of the Abbey were re-built over the folloWing years. In 1921, the last Earl of Craven to live there, died tragically in a boating accident and his wife the Countess decided to sell the estate.  This must have been a very difficult decision after the family had been there for 300 years.  However, a builder bought it in 1923 then in 1964 Coventry City Council took possession of the Abbey and opened the park to the public in 1966.  In 1995 the Abbey became a Hotel and Conference Centre hosting many ev...

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history! #14

...HOAR CROSS HALL - A BIT OF HISTORY:  Due to many requests asking about the history of the house, this week I'm taking a break from my family's story to look back a few hundred years of what happened before we lived there!     Hoar Cross was part of Needwood Forest, the 11th century lands of Henry de Ferrers.  The land was passed down to Henry’s son and subsequent various people over the course of 500 years ending with the Webb family, around the 1730s, who bought the land and house known as the Manor of the Cross.  This was quite a large house built on a hill near Yoxall (which is the village next to Hoar Cross).  In 1740 the manor house was demolished...