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Motor Racing Days #64
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th July 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Silverstone,Brands Hatch,Chasewater,Mallory Park,Colditz,Godfather,Chris Meek,british grand prix,volkswagon,Formula 1,Formula 2,The Alps,Lotus elite,second world war,Motor bikes
...etc from auction houses and we would pack this up and go off for the weekend. Gavin and I would sit on chairs in the back of the van and every time we went round a corner our chairs would tip over to the side and we’d be hanging on for dear life – my mum would sit in the front with Piers on her knee! No seatbelts then or child seats – I dread to think how we would have survived an accident! My dad would always get passes for the Paddock, which was the area where all the racing car teams were, next to the pits and only a privileged few would have these. At Silverstone there was a place called the Doghouse Club (long gone now) off the Paddock where...
Meet the Neighbours - Blithfield Hall #78
Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th March 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,Blithfield Hall,world war 2,Bagot,goat,death duties,South Staffs Waterworks Company,victorian,Downton Abbey,The Crown,Grade 1 listed,Blithfield Reservoir,Elizabethan,Civil war
...all at an auction for £12,000 – and was bought by his wife, Nancy, Lady Bagot! That’s one way to keep it in the family! In 1986 the Hall was made into four separate houses with the Great Hall and main part of the house being owned by the Bagot Jewitt Trust and whose family remain in residence to this day. So it’s nice to hear that at least one family managed to keep their inheritance – and their goats!
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