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Motor Racing Days #9
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th October 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,lotus elite,mallory park,donington park,silverstone,graham hill,Sterling Moss,1950s,1960s,North Africa,second world war
MOTOR RACING DAYS: Although my blogs are about living at Hoar Cross Hall, I would just like to give a bit of background about my dad’s racing career in the years leading up to moving to the Hall as this will set the scene for later instalments of my story.
As mentioned in my first blog my dad used to be a racing driver but he actually started off racing motor cycles in the 1930s. Because of this he became a despatch rider during the Second World War and spent a lot of time in North Africa. After the war he started racing motor bikes at nearby Donington Park and he raced there up to the beginning of the 1950s. After that he moved onto cars and d...
Moving into the Manor #2
Posted by Viv Wilson on 21st October 2018 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Shardlow Motor Racing,Donington Park,Chester Zoo,Victorian,Uttoxeter
...ect rates bill for the place – at least not at first anyhow!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Things that go bump in the night!
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Reburbishing our Mansion #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 4th November 2018 in Blogging | hoar cross hall,Victorian,Meynell,Chapel,Mission Impossible,armour,dungeon,execution chamber
...electric bill down for obvious reasons. However, I was still terrified of seeing 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...
Suits you sir! #23
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th February 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,suits of armour,Chapel,bodley organs,Mediaeval banquets,Tower of London,Coventry
...cleaning bill to pay but I’ve never seen my dad laugh so much in his life! We eventually managed to catch Percy but it was worth all the fuss just to see my dad in a good mood for once! Percy had won the day!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: The graveyard shift!
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...Moving house to a mansion #1
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | meynell,hoar cross hall,Oliver Twist,uttoxeter,chester zoo,donington park
...rrect tax bill for the place – at least not at first anyhow!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Things that go bump in the night!
If you want to follow my story from the beginning, click here and please feel free to share with your friends.
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Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,execution chamber,Damask room,Victorian,skeleton
...electric bill down for obvious reasons. However, I was still terrified of seeing 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...