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Things that go bump in the night! #3
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th October 2018 in Blogging | hoar cross hall,ghost,Meynell,ghoulish,suits of armour,mysteries
...ght of 20 suits of armour staring back at us through their visors as we climbed the stairs was quite intimidating.
Many people that stayed overnight at the Hall also heard these and other noises and in the ensuing years we were to experience many ghostly happenings but you’ll have to wait a little longer to hear about them – check out my future blogs!
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Things that go bump in the Night #3
Posted by Viv Wilson on 9th May 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghost,haunted,attic,servant girl,suits of armour,grave,churchyard
...ght of 20 suits of armour staring back at us through their visors as we climbed the stairs was quite intimidating.
Many people that stayed overnight at the Hall also heard these and other noises and in the ensuing years we were to experience many ghostly happenings but you’ll have to wait a little longer to hear about them – check out my future blogs!
Don’t miss next week’s instalment: "Our mansion gets a facelift"
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...Things that go bump in the night #3
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,ghost,haunted,attic,typewriter,suits of armour,Bridgerton,keeping up with the aristocrats,Downton Abbey
...ght of 20 suits of armour staring back at us through their visors in the Long Gallery as we climbed the stairs was quite intimidating.
And then there was the time we played 'Hide and Seek' in the basement rooms - so many rooms to hide in but I had to pick the one which had a crying child in it! I couldn't understand where the noise was coming from and thought it was my little brother Piers crying - maybe he'd got lost? But no! My brothers were running around looking for me quite unaware of the woeful weeping. Needless to say I never went in the basement much after that and I have since been told by a few people that they have also heard a crying child d...
Rags to Riches #14
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,second world war,first world war,boer War,Tiger skin,bearskin,Tony Blackburn,Meynell,mediaeval banquets
...iture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it. My bedroom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide open displaying a large set of fangs! In another room was a bearskin rug complete with head – we had no chance of getting the electrics fixed! Because of all the space we had a table tennis table in a spare bedroom and a pinball machine in another room that my dad had bought at a sale. This all seemed completely normal to us although in hindsight it was obviously anything bu...Rags to Riches #15
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th August 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Jamaica,alabaster,Derby walk of fame,Olympics,Louis Martin,first world war,second world war,Downton Abey,Bridgerton,period drama
...iture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it. My bedroom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide open displaying a large set of fangs! In another room was a bearskin rug complete with head – we had no chance of getting the electrics fixed! Because of all the space we had a table tennis table in a spare bedroom and a pinball machine in another room that my dad had bought at a sale. This all seemed completely normal to us although in hindsight it was obviously anything bu...Rags to Riches #14
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st July 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Italian,Derby,first world war,second world war,Bridgerton,Downton Abbey,tony blackburn,Michaelangelo
...iture and suits of armour so we didn’t think anything of it. My bedroom had a tiger skin rug on the floor and when a workman came to the house to check the electrics he wouldn’t go in my room – he was terrified of it! Well, it did have the tiger’s head on it too with its mouth wide open displaying a large set of fangs! In another room was a bearskin rug complete with head – we had no chance of getting the electrics fixed! Because of all the space we had a table tennis table in a spare bedroom and a pinball machine in another room that my dad had bought at a sale. This all seemed completely normal to us although in hindsight it was obviously anything bu...