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Victorian Fashions #95
Posted by Viv Wilson on 29th May 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,my dad bought a mansion,victorian,amazon,historic houses,national trust,Ballroom,Balls,bustle,crinoline,corsets,industrial revolution,hourglass,petticoats,downton abbey,queen victoria,barons eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel
The Victorian era was roughly from 1830 – 1900 and saw many changes in fashion styles. This was the era of technological advancement and the mass production of sewing machines in the 1850s and the advent of synthetic dyes introduced major changes in fashion. This, coupled with the printing of fashion magazines, allowed the masses to become more fashion conscious – the middle classes were rising up thanks to the Industrial Revolution!
Clothes were an expression of your place in society, therefore upper-class women, who didn’t need to work, could wear more elaborate dresses over layers of petticoats with tightly laced corsets. Men would wear long froc...
Race Day Parties! #25
Posted by Viv Wilson on 30th October 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,motor racing,motor bike,Bob Gerrard,Tom Wheatcroft,champagne,parties,Lotus Elite,racing cars,VIPS
My dad used to be a racing driver so he was often invited to parties and open days at various racing circuits. He naturally knew lots of racing people and on this particular occasion he was invited to an Open Day at Donington Park. Tom Wheatcroft, a local entrepreneur, had bought Donington Park in the 1970s as he owned the largest collection of Grand Prix cars in the world at that time. In 1973 he opened a museum there to house them all and called it the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition. This sadly closed in 2018. Donington became the favoured home of the British round of the MotoGP motorcycling championships but he was really hoping to bring Formula 1 racing b...
RACE TRACK ‘AFTER PARTIES’ #27
Posted by Viv Wilson on 25th July 1977 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,racing car,donington park,mallory park,bob gerard,kirkby hall,grand prix,museum,car,racing driver,alvin stardust,joe bugner
RACE TRACK ‘AFTER PARTIES’ Because my dad used to be a racing driver he was often invited to parties and open days at various racing circuits. He naturally knew lots of racing people and on this particular occasion he was invited to an Open Day at Donington Park. Tom Wheatcroft, a local entrepreneur, had bought Donington Park in the 1970s as he owned the largest collection of Grand Prix cars in the world at that time. In 1973 he opened a museum there to house them all and called it the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition.
Donington became the favoured home of the British round of the MotoGP motorcycling championships but he was really hoping to bring F...
Race Day Parties #27
Posted by Viv Wilson on 21st April 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | mallory park,Silverstone,donington park,hoar cross hall,mediaeval banquets,Bob Gerrard,Tom Wheatcroft
RACE DAY PARTIES: My dad used to be a racing driver so he was often invited to parties and open days at various racing circuits. He naturally knew lots of racing people and on this particular occasion he was invited to an Open Day at Donington Park. Tom Wheatcroft, a local entrepreneur, had bought Donington Park in the 1970s as he owned the largest collection of Grand Prix cars in the world at that time. In 1973 he opened a museum there to house them all and called it the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition. Donington became the favoured home of the British round of the MotoGP motorcycling championships but he was really hoping to bring Formula 1...
Race day parties #26
Posted by Viv Wilson on 2nd March 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | donington park,mallory park,hoar cross hall,graham hill,Jim Clarke,silverstone,bob gerard
RACE DAY PARTIES: My dad used to be a racing driver so he was often invited to parties and open days at various racing circuits. He naturally knew lots of racing people and on this particular occasion he was invited to an Open Day at Donington Park. Tom Wheatcroft, a local entrepreneur, had bought Donington Park in the 1970s as he owned the largest collection of Grand Prix cars in the world at that time. In 1973 he opened a museum there to house them all and called it the Donington Grand Prix Exhibition. Donington became the favoured home of the British round of the MotoGP motorcycling championships but he was really hoping to bring Formula 1 ra...
MOTOR RACING DAYS #9
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th February 1973 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,motor racing,pat ferguson,lotus,formula 3,formula 2,colditz,silverstone,mallory park,chris meek
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. He had been a despatch rider in World War 2 in North Africa and after the war ended and he’d recovered from TB he decided to take up racing his bike as a hobby.
As he lived in Derby the nearest track was Donington Park and he raced there at the beginning of the 1950s. After that he move...