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Here comes the Bride (Part 1) # 30

...t see the ghost of the lady who wanders through the woods!   Don’t miss Part 2 of ‘Here comes the bride’ next week.  Find out what caused the congregation to gasp as we exchanged our vows! If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.          ...

Our mansion gets a facelift #4

...eing that ghost and I hated all those suits of armour looking at me so I would leave the lights on and let my mum switch them off later!  However, if I heard any strange noises in the night at least I could blame the new tenants now and not think about the attic ‘tenants’. Around the back and side of the house was a dry ‘moat’ as we called it.  Not full of water but there to allow light into the basement rooms.  A stone balustrade surrounded it and we loved to walk along the top of it even though it was a long drop if we’d fallen off!  These moats were full of soil and dead leaves which all needed to be cleared and the only way of accessing them w...

More tea vicar? #12

...ns of our ghost was buried – the small child whose cries we often heard.  She was buried in the churchyard and we had found her grave after hearing the noises and stories about her.  I think she was about 9 years old and the grave belonged to a Rose Meynell. Because we lived at the Hall the vicar expected to see us at church every week; however, weekends were our busy time so we didn’t go every week but managed to attend at Easter and Christmas.  I have to say we were non too keen on going to church as we had to be on our best behaviour (something which didn’t sit easily with us as you’ve probably guessed!).  Afterwards though we all went across the...

Here Comes the Bride (Part 1) #29

...t see the ghost of the lady who wanders through the woods!   Don’t miss Part 2 of ‘Here comes the bride’ next week. Find out what caused the congregation to gasp as we exchanged our vows! If you would like to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.        ...

Moving On - the end of an era #32

...seen the ghost of a man in the Entrance Hall (the same one I had seen many years before) so the house was obviously still haunted! The grounds had had a lot of time spent on them and they were back to how they looked in the Victorian days when the Meynell family first lived there. Whilst filming the rooms it really made me appreciate what a beautiful house this was to live in and how fortunate we were to have such an unusual childhood living here. Not long after we visited in 2005 my mum was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease and died at the age of 73 in 2008 – eight months later my dad died at the age of 92. I often think how strange that they should die...

Doing up a stately home #4

...eing that ghost and I hated all those suits of armour looking at me so I would leave the lights on and let my mum switch them off later! However, if I heard any strange noises in the night at least I could blame the new tenants now and not think about the attic ‘tenants’. Re-surfacing the drive Painting the ceiling   Around the back and side of the house was a dry ‘moat’ as we called it. Not full of water but there to allow light into the basement rooms. A stone balustrade surrounded it and we loved to walk along the top of it even though it was a long drop if we’d fallen off! These moats were full of soil and dead leaves which all needed...