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The Origan class='highlight'>inan>s of the Stately home #39

Why are stately homes so called? Stately home actually means 'a large impressive old house with an class='highlight'>inan>terestan class='highlight'>inan>g history and usually visited by the public.' Well, I san class='highlight'>upan>pose they do look very 'stately' for a start but these houses were also a status symbol for the great families of England, who competed with each other to provide hospitality for the royal household who would travel around England meetan class='highlight'>inan>g their subjects. Stately homes were huge mansions which were always beautiful and the epitome of perfect architecture, often designed by famous architects of the day. The gardens too would be perfectly landscaped to show balance, variety, sequence and colour. One of t...

The origan class='highlight'>inan>s of the stately home #43

So why are stately homes so called? Stately home actually means 'a large impressive old house with an class='highlight'>inan>terestan class='highlight'>inan>g history and usually visited by the public.' Well, I san class='highlight'>upan>pose they do look very 'stately' for a start but these houses were also a status symbol for the great families of England, who competed with each other to provide hospitality for the royal household who would travel around England meetan class='highlight'>inan>g their subjects. Stately homes were huge mansions which were always beautiful and the epitome of perfect architecture, often designed by famous architects of the day. The gardens too would be perfectly landscaped to show balance, variety, sequence and colour. One o...

Skools out for Summer! #58

When Hugo and Emily Meynell built Hoar Cross Hall they also an class='highlight'>inan>cluded on their estate kitchen gardens, greenhouses, stables, a farm and cottages. Old Hall (their origan class='highlight'>inan>al home) was also on the estate and was accessed via a private road, which ran from the maan class='highlight'>inan> road. By the time the seventies came along the stable block and Old Hall were private houses and another part of Old Hall had been made an class='highlight'>inan>to a children’s home. Emily Meynell had started this home an class='highlight'>inan> the Victorian days, callan class='highlight'>inan>g it ‘The home of the Good Shepherd’ but it was for boys only at that time. When we were there it was a mixed home and run by a husband and wife coan class='highlight'>upan>le. They used to have fetes t...

Rags to Riches #14

Before we moved to Hoar Cross Hall an class='highlight'>inan> Staffordshire we lived an class='highlight'>inan> Derbyshire.  My family origan class='highlight'>inan>ated from Derby and my parents were married there an class='highlight'>inan> July 1952. Mum was 19 and dad was 36 so quite a bit older. They both lived an class='highlight'>inan> Derby and were very arty; my dad went to the Derby Sketchan class='highlight'>inan>g Club an class='highlight'>inan> his free time and my mum attended art college. I’m not sure where they met but it was either at somethan class='highlight'>inan>g art related or at a dance, as was usual an class='highlight'>inan> those days. My dad was a sculptor by trade; I than class='highlight'>inan>k his an class='highlight'>inan>terest was sparked by seean class='highlight'>inan>g all the beautiful alabaster an class='highlight'>inan> Italian churches duran class='highlight'>inan>g the war. after the war he set an class='highlight'>upan> his own busan class='highlight'>inan>ess makan class='highlight'>inan>g alabaster lamps, bowls and...

Skools out for Summer #98

When Hugo and Emily Meynell built Hoar Cross Hall it an class='highlight'>inan>cluded a whole estate with it, namely kitchen gardens, greenhouses, stables, a farm and cottages.  This was quite common an class='highlight'>inan> those days as the estate san class='highlight'>upan>ported the house with food etc and also gave employment to local people. Old Hall (their origan class='highlight'>inan>al home) was also on the estate and was accessed via a private road, which ran from the maan class='highlight'>inan> road.  By the time the 1970s came along the stable block and Old Hall were private houses and another part of Old Hall had been made an class='highlight'>inan>to a children’s home.  Emily Meynell had started this home an class='highlight'>inan> the Victorian days, callan class='highlight'>inan>g it ‘The home of the Good Shepherd’ but it...

Skools out for Summer #16

When Hugo and Emily Meynell built Hoar Cross Hall it an class='highlight'>inan>cluded a whole estate with it, namely kitchen gardens, greenhouses, stables, a farm and cottages. Old Hall (their origan class='highlight'>inan>al home) was also on the estate and was accessed via a private road, which ran from the maan class='highlight'>inan> road. By the time the seventies came along the stable block and Old Hall were private houses and another part of Old Hall had been made an class='highlight'>inan>to a children’s home. Emily Meynell had started this home an class='highlight'>inan> the Victorian days, callan class='highlight'>inan>g it ‘The home of the Good Shepherd’ but it was for boys only at that time. When we were at the Hall it was a mixed home and run by a husband and wife coan class='highlight'>upan>le. They used to...