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Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' #6

...ses was a carp pond where they kept fish for the family to eat. Like everything else though it was empty and overgrown and full of weeds so no fishing for us, although we did try and find some fish in the big ponds in the woods but never did. In the main gardens there were two round lily ponds with a fountain in the middle which must have looked lovely in their day but like everything else they didn’t work. My dad did have a go at trying to make them work, even finding huge water tanks under the terraces which were the water supplies to the fountains but the pipes were rusted up so we left them alone. The carp pond in the 1930s   However, in the garden...

Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' #6

...ses was a carp pond where they kept fish for the family to eat. Like everything else though it was empty and overgrown and full of weeds so no fishing for us, although we did try and find some fish in the big ponds in the woods but never did. In the main gardens there were two round lily ponds centred with a fountain which must have looked lovely in their day but like everything else they didn’t work. My dad did have a go at trying to make them work, even finding huge water tanks under the terraces which were the water supplies to the fountains but the pipes were rusted up so we left them alone. The carp pond with greenhouses in the background   Howeve...

Gardeners World at Hoar Cross #43

...s. The carp pond in front of the greenhouses   If the butler was an important figure inside the house, the head gardener had as much authority outside. Even the mistress from the house was unable to enter the nursery garden without his permission, and to help herself to his produce would have been unthinkable. Only the head gardener had the key and the door was always kept locked outside working hours! Around Christmas time, all the local trades’ people who supplied the house, were invited to a party held for them in the Long Gallery. They were restricted to this area only, whenever there was a party or Servants Ball – well, you couldn’t have the...

Gardeners' World at Hoar Cross #39

...s. The carp pond with greenhouses in the background    If the butler was an important figure inside the house, the head gardener had as much authority outside. Even the mistress from the house was unable to enter the nursery garden without his permission, and to help herself to his produce would have been unthinkable. Only the head gardener had the key and the door was always kept locked outside working hours! Lady Mary's Garden Around Christmas time, all the local trades’ people who supplied the house, were invited to a party held for them in the Long Gallery. They were restricted to this area only, whenever there was a party or Servants Ball �...

Hoar Cross Hall - A bit of History #54

...Hoar Cross was part of Needwood Forest, the 11th century lands of Henry de Ferrers. The land was passed down to Henry’s son and subsequent various people over the course of 500 years ending with the Webb family, around the 1730s, who bought the land and house known as the Manor of the Cross. This was quite a large house built on a hill near Yoxall (which is the village next to Hoar Cross). In 1740 the manor house was demolished and later the Hon. Charles Talbot bought the estate for £17,000. Eventually it was sold to Hugo Meynell, who already owned huge amounts of property all over the county and was now about to add another one to his portfolio. This branch...

Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' #6

...ses was a carp pond where they kept fish for the family to eat.  Like everything else though it was empty and overgrown and full of weeds so no fishing for us, although we did try and find some fish in the big ponds in the woods but never did.  In the main gardens there were two round lily ponds with a fountain in the middle which must have looked lovely in their day but like everything else they didn’t work.  My dad did have a go at trying to make them work, even finding huge water tanks under the terraces which were the water supplies to the fountains but the pipes were rusted up so we left them alone. However, in the garden which we used as our private...