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Eat, drink and be merry! #10
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th December 2018 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,sothebys,Christies,rolls royce,coombe abbey,JCB,banquets
...and beer cellars, and we had great fun learning to walk on them like they did in the circus! We also built a treehouse in one of the huge cedar trees which lined the path to the church. As per usual the three of us would hide up there and watch the visitors walk by on their way to the church, as this was also open to the public, then we would make animal noises or suchlike and throw pine cones into nearby bushes to make them jump! It was also a good place to hide from our dad!
The visitors continued to come on a regular basis and my parents tried to think up different ideas to attract them. At one end of the terrace, near to the old grass tennis courts...Eat, Drink and be Merry! #10
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th October 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Banquets,King,Jester,dinner jacket,JCB,Bamford,Uttoxeter
...and beer cellars, and we had great fun learning to walk on them like they did in the circus! We also built a treehouse in one of the huge cedar trees which lined the path to the church. As per usual the three of us would hide up there and watch the visitors walk by on their way to the church, as this was also open to the public, then we would make animal noises or suchlike and throw pine cones into nearby bushes to make them jump! It was also a good place to hide from our dad!
The visitors continued to come on a regular basis and my parents tried to think up different ideas to attract them. At one end of the terrace, near to the old grass tennis courts...
Ventures New #9
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th August 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,circus,beer cellar,treehouse,Meynell,steam train,mediaeval banquets,J C Bamford,Uttoxeter,Easter,antiques
...and beer cellars, and we had great fun learning to walk on them like they did in the circus! We also built a treehouse in one of the huge cedar trees which lined the path to the church. As per usual the three of us would hide up there and watch the visitors walk by on their way to the church, as this was also open to the public, then we would make animal noises or suchlike and throw pine cones into nearby bushes to make them jump! It was also a good place to hide from our dad!
The visitors continued to come on a regular basis and my parents tried to think up different ideas to attract them. At one end of the terrace, near to the old grass tennis courts (still...
My Dad Bought a Mansion #1
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th April 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Bill,mounting block,Victorian,long gallery,Ballroom,Library,Chapel,Derby,Lichfield,ghost hunters
...the wine cellars were along with linen storage cupboards. In the attic a similar number of rooms were bare and empty and had once housed all the female servants. Two spiral staircases joined all the floors together, one at each end of the house.
The Library had secret doors!
All the bedrooms for the family were on the first floor and were named after whichever town they faced i.e. Derby, Lichfield, Needwood, etc. It was fascinating stuff! There was also a West Wing and an East Wing to the house; the West Wing had been the nursery rooms for the younger members of the Meynell family and their nursemaids. In one of the corridors we found an old ‘sit an...