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Hoar Cross Hall - A bit of History #54
Posted by Viv Wilson on 12th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar Cross hall,Meynell,st james palace,first world war,second world war,Military Cross,Bishop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,church of the holy angels,mediterranean,the crown,downton abbey,my dad bought a mansion
...arded the Military Cross although he was seriously injured at El Alamein. He married Dorothy Jean Goshen (known as Jean) in 1936 and together with their five children they lived at Hoar Cross until 1952 when they left to live at the nearby village of Newborough; sadly, they were the last Meynell family to live at the Hall. Colonel Hugo Meynell died in 1960 and his wife Jean in 1993. After they left the Hall they sold all the contents and tried to sell the house but were unable to do so, deciding instead to rent it to a local consultant and his wife from nearby Burton-on-Trent Hospital, who stayed for nearly 10 years. After they left in the sixties a monastic com...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #17
Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th August 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar Cross hall,Meynell,william the conqueror,christian community,BIshop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,second world war,first world war,George VI,Queen Mother,Queen Elizabeth
...arded the Military Cross although he was seriously injured at El Alamein. He married Dorothy Jean Goshen (known as Jean) in 1936 and together with their five children they lived at Hoar Cross until 1952 when they left to live at the nearby village of Newborough; sadly, they were the last Meynell family to live at the Hall. Colonel Hugo Meynell died in 1960 and his wife Jean in 1993. After they left the Hall they sold all the contents and tried to sell the house but were unable to do so, deciding instead to rent it to a local consultant and his wife from nearby Burton-on-Trent Hospital, who stayed for nearly 10 years. After they left in the sixties a monastic com...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history! #14
Posted by Viv Wilson on 2nd June 1973 in History | Meynell,First World War,Second World War,Newborough,Hugo Meynell,William the Conqueror,hoar Cross hall,red Cross,George VI,Queen mother
...arded the Military Cross although he was seriously injured at El Alamein. He married Dorothy Jean Goshen (known as Jean) in 1936 and together with their five children they lived at Hoar Cross until 1952 when they left to live at the nearby village of Newborough; sadly, they were the last Meynell family to live at the Hall. Colonel Hugo Meynell died in 1960 and his wife Jean in 1993. After they left the Hall they sold all the contents and tried to sell the house but were unable to do so, deciding instead to rent it to a local consultant and his wife from nearby Burton-on-Trent Hospital, who stayed for nearly 10 years. After they left in the sixties a mona...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #13
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar Cross hall,Meynell,Quorn hunt,fox huntiing,william the conqueror,Florence,mediterranean,River Nile,British Empire
...arded the Military Cross although he was seriously injured at El Alamein. He married Dorothy Jean Goshen (known as Jean) in 1936 and together with their five children they lived at Hoar Cross until 1952 when they left to live at the nearby village of Newborough; sadly, they were the last Meynell family to live at the Hall. Colonel Hugo Meynell died in 1960 and his wife Jean in 1993. After they left the Hall they sold all the contents and tried to sell the house but were unable to do so, deciding instead to rent it to a local consultant and his wife from nearby Burton-on-Trent Hospital, who stayed for nearly 10 years. After they left in the sixties a monastic com...Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th January 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar Cross hall,meynell,fox hunting,quorn hall,temple newsam,emily meynell,bowes-lyon,Eton college
...arded the Military Cross although he was seriously injured at El Alamein. He married Dorothy Jean Goshen (known as Jean) in 1936 and together with their five children they lived at Hoar Cross until 1952 when they left to live at the nearby village of Newborough; sadly, they were the last Meynell family to live at the Hall. Colonel Hugo Meynell died in 1960 and his wife Jean in 1993. After they left the Hall they sold all the contents and tried to sell the house but were unable to do so, deciding instead to rent it to a local consultant and his wife from nearby Burton-on-Trent Hospital, who stayed for nearly 10 years. After they left in the sixties a mona...
Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #11
Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar Cross hall,Meynell,first world war,second world war,christian community,Goshen,El Alamein,HRH Princess Alice,Earl of Dartmouth
...arded the Military Cross although he was seriously injured at El Alamein. He married Dorothy Jean Goshen (known as Jean) in 1936 and together with their five children they lived at Hoar Cross until 1952 when they left to live at the nearby village of Newborough; sadly, they were the last Meynell family to live at the Hall. Colonel Hugo Meynell died in 1960 and his wife Jean in 1993. After they left the Hall they sold all the contents and tried to sell the house but were unable to do so, deciding instead to rent it to a local consultant and his wife from nearby Burton-on-Trent Hospital, who stayed for nearly 10 years. After they left in the sixties a mona...