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Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th May 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Chapel,damask Room,Hessian Room,servants hall,dungeon,execution chamber,skeleton
OUR MANSION GETS A FACELIFT!
We moved into Hoar Cross Hall during the summer holidays and my parents quickly realised that they had a lot of work on their hands to make the place habitable as well as to earn some money from it. As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing and a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor Rooms of each wing into three separate apartments; he had done this at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the Rooms as the East Wing had four main Rooms and two bathRooms already there, which would have been used as g...DIY Stately Home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Hoar Cross Hall,Meynell,Hessian Room,Damask Room,East Wing,West Wing,Visitors,Boot Boy,Execution Chamber,Kitchen,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Bridgerton
We moved into Hoar Cross Hall during the summer holidays and my parents quickly realised they had a lot of work on their hands to make the place habitable as well as to earn some money from it. As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing and a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor Rooms of each wing into three separate apartments; he had done this at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the Rooms as the East Wing had four main Rooms and two bathRooms already there, which would have been used as guest bedRooms in Victorian times. H...
The Chinese Room #71
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st December 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,chinese,japanese,armour,mediaval,Yoki Yasutsuna,sword,Burmese,Great Hall,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Covid-19
...om to the Drawing Room after dinner and the Dining Room became the place where gentlemen talked and smoked away from the ladies. Nowadays a Dining Room tends to be used for special occasions such as Christmas and most families eat in the kitchen if they have the Room to do so. Although, of course, no-one could have predicted that so many Dining Rooms became home offices during the Covid-19 pandemic!
Now we are in the month of December, the next few blogs will have a Christmas theme - maybe even a ghostly one!
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Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,execution chamber,Damask Room,Victorian,skeleton
...OUR MANSION GETS A FACELIFT: We moved into Hoar Cross Hall during the summer holidays and my parents quickly realised that they had a lot of work on their hands to make the place habitable as well as to earn some money from it. As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing and a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor Rooms of each wing into three separate apartments; he had done this at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the Rooms as the East Wing had four main Rooms and two bathRooms already there, which would...Doing up a stately home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th June 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,dungeon,boot boy,flower Room,chapel,skeleton,axeman
...DOING UP A STATELY HOME: We moved into Hoar Cross Hall during the summer holidays and my parents quickly realised that they had a lot of work on their hands to make the place habitable as well as to earn some money from it. As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing and a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor Rooms of each wing into three separate apartments; he had done this at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the Rooms as the East Wing had four main Rooms and two bathRooms already there, which would have been used as...The BallRoom #70
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th November 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,barons eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,new years eve,Meynell,victorian,Red Cross,Drawing Room,mediaval,The Crown,Downton Abbey
...alled the Drawing Room, the name deriving from the word ‘withDrawing’ as in a Room you ‘withdrew’ to after dinner. This term remained in use throughout the 17th century, first making an appearance in 1642. The main purpose of a Drawing Room was to entertain guests and visitors but it also gave its name to Drawing Room plays. This was an early form of drama that the upper classes liked to get involved in and as time went on it evolved to encompass comedy and forms of dramatic monologue. Drawing Room comedy typically features wit and verbal banter among wealthy, upper class characters and is sometimes called the ‘comedy of manners’.
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