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Hysterical Productions #16
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st November 1974 in Early Days | mediaeval banquets,racing car,olympia,london,ira,birmingham,hoar cross hall
...along and dancing about with some of the guests, he wasn’t too happy and one time started shouting at her in front of everyone, which was a bit embarrassing! The next day, when cleaning up, we would find all sorts of things which people had left behind: scarves, perfume, a £1 note, cigarettes and even a set of false teeth left on the mantelpiece! I had found a little hidey hole in the wooden panelling in the Long Gallery; a small 6” square door which pushed open when pressed in the right place and I would keep things in there which I found – especially the cigarettes!
In the middle of all this busyness my dad still found time to go to Arms and Armour...
More Tea Vicar? #13
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th January 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,New Year's Eve,Scottish,1973,Christmas,Meynell
...ryone was dancing to them so much. At midnight we had a Scottish piper who would walk down the Long Gallery in full Scottish regalia complete with bagpipes to pipe in the new year. Once this was done everyone would sing Auld Lang Syne and then my dad would release a net full of balloons onto the crowd and everyone would set off their party poppers.
My brother Gavin’s birthday was New Year’s Day so he was allowed to come down just before midnight and everyone would sing Happy Birthday to him. Not many youngsters of that age had 500 people singing birthday wishes to them and a huge party in their house!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Skool’...
Skools out for summer! #14
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th January 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,caves of drach,Majorca,Portugal,Greece,Morocco,Kasbah,Europe,Library
...flamenco dancing and they pulled me up onto the stage to join in which was fun, if unexpected! We also went on a day trip to Morocco and walked round the Kasbah, which was the local market. I remember hoards of poor children following us around trying to sell us things. My dad noticed one of the stallholders smiling at me and said for a joke “You can have her for two camels”. Well, the man never left our side after that – he took it very seriously and followed us all round the market trying to negotiate with my dad who was getting more and more irritated by the minute! I’m afraid not everyone understood my dad’s sense of humour, which could...
Hysterical Productions #17
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th February 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home |
...along and dancing about with some of the guests, he wasn’t too happy and one time started shouting at her in front of everyone, which was a bit embarrassing! The next day, when cleaning up, we would find all sorts of things which people had left behind: scarves, perfume, money, cigarettes and even a set of false teeth left on the mantelpiece! I had found a little hidey hole in the wooden panelling in the Long Gallery; a small 6” square door which pushed open when pressed in the right place and I would keep things in there which I found – especially the cigarettes!
In the middle of all this busyness my dad still found time to go to arms and armour exhi...More tea vicar? #12
Posted by Viv Wilson on 10th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,church of the holy angels,meynell arms,Bodley,world war 2,famours five,vicar,gas masks,new years eve
...ryone was dancing to them so much. At midnight we had a Scottish piper who would walk down the Long Gallery in full Scottish regalia complete with bagpipes to pipe in the new year. Once this was done everyone would sing Auld Lang Syne and then my dad would release a net full of balloons onto the crowd and everyone would set off their party poppers.
My brother Gavin’s birthday was New Year’s Day so he was allowed to come down just before midnight and everyone would sing Happy Birthday to him. Not many youngsters of that age had 500 people singing birthday wishes to them and a huge party in their house!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: Skool’...
A New Year Calamity!
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th December 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,New Year's Eve,Scottish piper,auld lang syne,hokey cokey,Ball
...ests were dancing to the band which happened to be Kev’s band this year. They seemed to go down well and looked completely different in their dinner jackets, even though they still wore long hair!
Kev (on the left) with his band
When the buffet was served later on the caterers put all the food out at once but there weren’t enough people around to staff it properly. The first guests that went up to help themselves took platefuls of food away so by the time the rest of the guests got their food there was hardly anything left! This nearly caused a riot and my poor dad ended up being surrounded by all these angry men demanding their money bac...