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Moving Out #29
Posted by Viv Wilson on 29th November 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,go-karting,antiques,Derby,Ferrari,Burton-on-Trent,Police
...t a large farmhouse that was quite local to us and because of the interesting ‘lots’ it had, quite a few of our well-to-do friends were there too. My dad was also there and told us he’d bought an oven for our new house. He couldn’t wait to tell us that it had only cost him £1. Even in those days £1 was ridiculously cheap, especially for an oven! He said it was in one of the outbuildings so we didn’t actually see it until the end of the auction. By then my dad had gone home so we set off to find our oven, congratulating ourselves on getting such a bargain. But when we saw it standing in the corner of a shed covered in cobwebs and full of rust our hear...
The origins of the stately home #43
Posted by Viv Wilson on 24th March 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Saltford Manor House,Bath,Still room,bridgerton,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Lord,Earl,Duke,Baron
...ms with a farmhouse albeit a bit grander! The Lords that owned the manor houses would then provide employment for large numbers of indoor and outdoor staff in the rural community. It also provided the owner with income from rents and produce. When the Industrial Revolution came along it meant more houses were being built for the newly rich industrialists which often mimicked stately homes whilst the poor continued to live in squalid, overcrowded slums.
By the 1850s the economy was booming - however, increased taxes and wars led to the downfall of a lot of these large houses as well as the agricultural depression of the 1870s as more people moved to the cities t...
Hoar Cross History #65
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th September 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell ingram arms,meynell-ingram,Hoar Cross,telephone,Emily Meynell,wedding,Needwood Forest,Burton Abbey,burton on trent,blacksmith,Barons Eden,Hotel and Spa
...ctually a farmhouse dating back to the seventeenth century. Before it was known as the Meynell Arms it was a coaching inn called the Shoulder of Mutton. The name was changed in the 1860s when Emily and Hugo Meynell-Ingram were married and built the Hall and it has been thus ever since. Nowadays it is a high quality bar and restaurant - a far cry from its farmyard origins! (see header picture)
Next to the Meynell pub was a blacksmith’s Forge. Here in the 1860s worked blacksmith William Tooth who lived in the village with his wife Mary; he had worked on the ironwork of the Hall during its construction and was the village ‘smithy’ for many years af...