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What the Butler saw!
Posted by Viv Wilson on 23rd June 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Butler,Downton Abbey,1930s,footman,aristocratic,Chubb safes
...ghters of aristocratic families were often attracted to fine, upstanding footmen, as they were always in the house and therefore, nearby. The butler would often have to keep an eye on the footmen as mixing with the family was unheard of. However, the girls would find ways of being in the same place as these young men, especially if they went out on a carriage ride as the footmen would stand at the back of the carriage and – oh my! – perhaps even take their hands to help them down the steps when they got home. I can hear all the giggling even now!
The highlight of the year for most girls was an eagerly-awaited dance at the Servants’ Ball at Christmas...
aristocratic travels # 39
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th July 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,emily meynell,Nile,Africa,Mediterranean,Baltic,North Sea,Ariadne
...aristocratic TRAVELS: Emily Charlotte Meynell, the original owner of Hoar Cross Hall, was probably one of the wealthiest independent women of the late 19th century in Britain. Her property included country estates around the Midlands, a London house in Eaton Square and a villa in Florence. For many years she owned a yacht, the latter a fully-crewed schooner of 380 tons. The family had large financial resources in addition to their estate income, through which they were sustained until well into the 20th century.
Emily cruised the Mediterranean every springtime in her yacht and occasionally crossed the North Sea to the Netherlands and Germany in the su...
aristocratic travels Part 2
Posted by Viv Wilson on 23rd July 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,Ariadne,African,mediterranean
...aristocratic TRAVELS PART 2: During the latter part of the 1800s Emily Charlotte Meynell travelled around the Mediterranean on board her schooner, Ariadne, recording her travels in her many diaries and drawing books, as mentioned in my previous blog. I have now found the photo of her yacht and one of her paintings; she was a skilled water colour artist as you can see but had a particular affection for nautical subjects. One particular holiday around Nice in the South of France with her brother Charles is documented by the water-colour paintings they both made. Soon after her husband Hugo's death in 1871, she embarked on a Mediterranean tour with her...
RAGS TO RICHES! #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd June 1973 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,alabaster,sculpture,suits of armour,stately home,sex,drugs,pink floyd,derby,second world war,first world war,1920's
...th of his aristocratic father. His life was coming full circle as his dream home came on the market in 1969 and he was in a position to buy it. One way or another it seems that he was meant to live in a stately home!
From the 1970's Hall brochure
To us children though it didn’t seem like an unusual way to live. Our homes were always full of antique furniture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it. My bedroom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide...Rags to Riches #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd February 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,mediaeval banquets,suits of armour,first world war,Louis Martin,second world war,olympics
...th of his aristocratic father. His life was coming full circle as his dream home came on the market in 1969 and he was in a position to buy it. One way or another it seems that he was meant to live in a stately home!
To us children though it didn’t seem like an unusual way to live. Our homes were always full of antique furniture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it. My bedroom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide open displaying a large set of fangs! I...Rags to Riches #12
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | first world war,second world war,alabaster,Chellaston mines,Derby,Italian,louis martin,suits of armour,Olympics
...th of his aristocratic father. His life was coming full circle as his dream home came on the market in 1969 and he was in a position to buy it. One way or another it seems that he was meant to live in a stately home!
To us children though it didn’t seem like an unusual way to live. Our homes were always full of antique furniture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it. My bedroom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide open displaying a large set of fangs! I...