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Hickleton Hall and the Meynells #43
Posted by Viv Wilson on 16th March 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Hickleton Hall,Hoar Cross Hall,Meynell,second world war,Dunkirk,brewhouse,Sue Ryder Home,Earl of Halifax,Viscount,Baronet,keeping up with the aristocrats,Downton Abbey
...nd even a brewhouse. One of the last brewhouses to operate within a country house was at Hickleton. Apparently, payments for staff beer ('beer money') was a further perquisite to their wages. This was, in part, a quaint survival from the days when servants drank beer instead of tea. Many houses had a brewhouse. Beer was particularly important when the water supply was unreliable and unsafe. Servants might enjoy as much as one gallon per person a day, although the brew was weaker than that of today!
The brewhouse at Hickleton Hall
The Halifax family preferred their estate at Garrowby to Hickleton and in 1947 sold the contents of Hickleton Hall and lease...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
...nd even a brewhouse. One of the last brewhouses to operate within a country house was at Hickleton. Apparently, payments for staff beer ('beer money') was a further perquisite to their wages. This was, in part, a quaint survival from the days when servants drank beer instead of tea. Many houses had a brewhouse. Beer was particularly important when the water supply was unreliable and unsafe. Servants might enjoy as much as one gallon per person a day, although the brew was weaker than that of today!
The brewhouse at Hickleton Hall
The Halifax family preferred their estate at Garrowby to Hickleton and in 1947 sold the contents of Hickleton Hall and lea...