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Things that go bump in the night #3
Posted by Viv Wilson on 22nd June 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghost,attic,basement,butler
...es of the servant girls as they rushed about. No wonder I grew up a nervous wreck!! It wasn’t much better when we went to bed – the sight of 20 suits of armour lining the Long Gallery, staring back at us through their visors as we climbed the stairs, was quite intimidating.
Down in the basement there were about 15 rooms either side of a long corridor which ran the length of the house. This was where most of the male servants had lived and some of the higher level female servants. The rooms were all empty and quite dark on one side with just grills to let in the light. On the other side was a dry moat which let in more light through proper windows but it sti...
The Schoolroom Maid's Story #36
Posted by Viv Wilson on 9th January 2022 in Growing Up In Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,spanish ambassador,Earl and Countess of Lichfield,Earl and Countess of Bradford,Christmas,Skegness,Bridgerton,Downton Abbey,Dorothy Meynell
...For the first 75 years of Hoar Cross Hall’s history about 50 servants were employed by the Meynell family in the house and grounds. Among these was a young girl of fifteen who started work in 1920 as a Schoolroom Maid. Her name was Miss Inez Sophia Large and she had connections to Hoar Cross through her grand-parents, William and Mary Tooth, who lived in the village where William was the blacksmith; his smithy was just along from the Meynell public house. He had worked on the ironwork of the Hall during its construction in the 1860s. Inez’s aunt, Constance Madeley, was the wife of the landlord at the Buffalo Inn, in nearby Newborough, and it was through her...
An Edwardian Schoolroom Maid #40
Posted by Viv Wilson on 4th February 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,earl and countess of lichfield,schoolroom,governess,earl and countess of bradford,skegness,spanish
...For the first 75 years of Hoar Cross Hall’s history about 50 servants were employed by the Meynell family in the house and grounds. Among these was a young girl of fifteen who started work in 1920 as a Schoolroom Maid. Her name was Miss Inez Sophia Large and she had connections to Hoar Cross through her grand-parents, William and Mary Tooth, who lived in the village where William was the blacksmith; his smithy was just along from the Meynell public house. He had worked on the ironwork of the Hall during its construction in the 1860s. Inez’s aunt, Constance Madeley, was the wife of the landlord at the Buffalo Inn, in nearby Newborough, and it was through her...