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The country house in society #48
Posted by Viv Wilson on 31st March 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,National Trust,Victorian,Gothic,19th century,Elizabethan,Georgian,Downton abbey,the crown,Wentworth Woodhouse,Blenheim Palace
Country houses are to be found throughout the British Isles and are a peculiarly English phenomenon. Houses range from mediaeval manor houses to classical Palladian mansions, elegant Georgian residences to the Gothic buildings of the Victorian era. A great many have survived for two main reasons: Britain has been spared much of the havoc of war and revolution affecting other countries.
Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
Wentworth Woodhouse (above) is one of the largest stately homes in Europe and was visited by King George V and Queen Mary in 1912. It is now with the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust and is much bigger than this photo shows!
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Royal visitors at Hoar Cross Hall #10
Posted by Viv Wilson on 29th May 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Queen Mary,King George VI,Princess Mary,Downton Abbey,Wentworth Woodhouse,Lady Elizabeth Bassett,Winston Churchill,second world war,first world war,queen mother,Queen Elizabeth,Prince Philip,The Crown
...me called Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham in 1912. They were guests of Earl Fitzwilliam and their stay was to include a visit to Cadeby Colliery, the scene of a recent mining disaster, which made many a headline at the time.
Wentworth Woodhouse
Apparently Hoar Cross Hall also had many well-known visitors over the years, including Queen Mary, her daughter Mary, the Princess Royal and the Duke and Duchess of York (later to become King George VI and the Queen Mother). They may have visited during one of their tours of the Midlands and it may have only been for afternoon tea, but we do know that the Meynell family provided hospitality for Mary, the Princess R...Royal Visitors at Hoar Cross Hall #20
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th September 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell,first world war,second world war,king george vi,queen mother,queen elizabeth,Queen's Platinum Jubilee,Queen Mary,King George V,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Paddington Bear,Prince Charles
...me called Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham in 1912. They were guests of Earl Fitzwilliam and their stay was to include a visit to Cadeby Colliery, the scene of a recent mining disaster, which made many a headline at the time.
Wentworth Woodhouse
Apparently Hoar Cross Hall also had many well-known visitors over the years, including Queen Mary, her daughter Mary, the Princess Royal and the Duke and Duchess of York (later to become King George VI and the Queen Mother). They may have visited during one of their tours of the Midlands and it may have only been for afternoon tea as we're not sure due to insufficient records, but we do know that the Meynell fa...
Royal Visitors at Hoar Cross Hall #49
Posted by Viv Wilson on 6th April 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,first world war,Queen Mary,queen mother,silver jubilee,Golden Jubilee,Platinum jubilee,Queen Alexandra,king george vi,King George V,second world war,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Royal Family,King Charles,Prince Harry,Coronation
...me called Wentworth Woodhouse in Rotherham in 1912. They were guests of Earl Fitzwilliam and their stay was to include a visit to Cadeby Colliery, the scene of a recent mining disaster, which made many a headline at the time.
Wentworth Woodhouse
Apparently Hoar Cross Hall also had many well-known visitors over the years, including Queen Mary, her daughter Mary, the Princess Royal and the Duke and Duchess of York (later to become King George VI and the Queen Mother). They may have visited during one of their tours of the Midlands and it may have only been for afternoon tea as we're not sure due to insufficient records, but we do know that the Meynel...
The Life and Times of an Upper Class Family #41
Posted by Viv Wilson on 12th April 2021 in Growing Up In Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,queen mother,Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon,Earl of Crawford,Earl Grey
...THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN UPPER CLASS FAMILIY: On 11th August 1863, Hugo Francis Meynell Ingram married the Hon. Emily Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Wood, Bart, afterwards 1st Viscount Halifax. The Woods were an old gentry family, for many centuries respectable York merchants. They were later to turn grand upon the discovery of coal beneath their ancestral estates. This was the great Barnsley field, with several hundred acres of Britain's deepest and finest coal. Sir Charles Wood was created 1st Viscount Halifax in 1866 and had a very distinguished political career. The family seats of Garrowby, Pocklington and Hickleton (where Emily was born) h...
Hickleton Hall and the Meynells #38
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th January 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,lewis carroll,alice through the looking glass,Alice in Wonderland,Dunkirk,Viscount Halifax,Christ Church,second world war,Viceroy of India,Chancellor of the Exchequer
...This lovely Grade II listed Georgian house in South Yorkshire was once the childhood home of The Honourable Emily Charlotte Meynell who married Hugo Meynell of Hoar Cross and who, together with Hugo, built Hoar Cross Hall to be their family home in 1873, a hundred years before my family lived there.
The original house was called Hickleton Palace and had been built for Judge Francis Rodes in the 16th century but in 1745 Hickleton Hall was built just to the south of this house after the estate was bought by Godfrey Wentworth in about 1730. Thirty years later he extended the house and added two low wings, one either side, and a servants wing (see header picture)...