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Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7

...ger and a bar – I’m sure a good time was had by all, if that’s what floats your boat! The Staffordshire Building Society also featured the Hall on one of their calendars – we were the January picture and it showed the driveway and entrance to the Hall covered in an inch of snow – very seasonal and pretty but as previously mentioned, very cold indoors and not good for our leaking roof! Front cover girl!   The next summer found us being photographed for The Staffordshire Magazine’s front cover. It was for their Christmas edition so we had to pretend it was December and find some old Christmas cards to put around the shelves. They wanted us to...

Here comes the bride (Part 1) #27

...Now my dad was having to move out of Hoar Cross Hall we had decided to bring our wedding forward so that we could get married in the church in the grounds and then have the reception afterwards in the Hall, which was after all our family home. The wedding preparations were going quite well and as we knew lots of musicians it wasn’t hard to find a local band and a DJ to do the disco. A friend of my dad’s offered to do the catering and the bar was set up with plenty of kegs from the local brewery in Burton on Trent. I had two bridesmaids and we all went to Birmingham one day to choose our dresses and shoes – it was all kept very simple really as I had no hel...

Here Comes the Bride (Part 2) # 28

...drank the bar dry. My dad brought down the promised bottles of champagne that he had been saving for all those years and put them on our table. After a while he noticed that everyone was happily drinking the cheaper pomagne, which we had bought for the toast, so he took all the bottles back upstairs to his room! We didn’t even get one for ourselves! Later on we had the speeches and, as I have said before, our best man was in the entertainment industry and was a professional performing magician. As he did his speech, he incorporated some of his tricks into the talk and guests were treated to bunches of flowers being pulled from his sleeve and strings of hankie...

Calendar Girls and Front Covers #7

...ger and a bar – I’m sure a good time was had by all, if that’s what floats your boat! The Staffordshire Building Society also featured the Hall on one of their calendars – we were the January picture and it showed the driveway and entrance to the Hall covered in an inch of snow – very seasonal and pretty but as previously mentioned, very cold indoors and not good for our leaking roof! Another magazine review in 'Six Towns'   The next summer found us being photographed for The Staffordshire Magazine’s front cover (see header picture).   It was for their Christmas edition so we had to pretend it was December and find some old Christmas cards...

Hysterical Productions #15

...By the end of 1974 we had done about 40 banquets at Hoar Cross Hall and they were still going strong. Most of the original cast were still with us but we were on our second King now and also doing our own catering and bar, whereas when we first started, we had a catering firm in to do it all. Every weekend over 200 people came to sample our Noble Brose, Roast Lambe and Saracen’s Delight and sing along to ‘I’m Henry VIII’ whilst drinking beer, wine and mead. But it was a very adult environment for 15 year old girls to work in; a few of my school friends also worked at the banquets as wenches and we were constantly being chatted up by men who bought us dri...

Get me to the church on time #31

...drank the bar dry. My dad brought down the promised bottles of champagne that he had been saving for all those years and put them on our table. After a while he noticed that everyone was happily drinking the cheaper pomagne, which we had bought for the toast, so he took all the bottles back upstairs to his room! We didn’t even get one for ourselves Later on we had the speeches and, as I have said before, our best man was in the entertainment industry and was a professional performing magician. As he did his speech, he incorporated some of his tricks into the talk and guests were treated to bunches of flowers being pulled from his sleeve and strings of hankies...