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Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #17

Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th August 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,william the conqueror,christian community,Bishop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,second world war,first world war,George VI,Queen Mother,Queen Elizabeth
...ry to the Bishop of Portsmouth. Dorothy never married and when the Second World War started she returned to Hoar Cross and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy. In 1944 Lady Dorothy left Hoar Cross, as she was now a widow, and went to live in Richmond Green in Surrey and this is where her daughter went to live after she had finished her travels. In 1947 Dorothy became a Lady-in-Waiting to H.R.H. The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at St James’s Palace for 12 years until her retirement. Many years later she came to visit us at the Hall and gave us a small wooden box whic...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - A bit of History #54

Posted by Viv Wilson on 12th May 2023 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,st james palace,first world war,second world war,military cross,Bishop of Portsmouth,Red Cross,church of the holy angels,mediterranean,the crown,downton abbey,my dad bought a mansion
...ry to the Bishop of Portsmouth. Dorothy never married and when the Second World War started she returned to Hoar Cross and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy. In 1944 Lady Dorothy left Hoar Cross, as she was now a widow, and went to live in Richmond Green in Surrey and this is where her daughter went to live after she had finished her travels. In 1947 Dorothy became a Lady-in-Waiting to H.R.H. The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at St James’s Palace for 12 years until her retirement. Many years later she came to visit us at the Hall and gave us a small wooden box whic...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history! #14

Posted by Viv Wilson on 2nd June 1973 in History | Meynell,First World War,Second World War,Newborough,Hugo Meynell,William the Conqueror,hoar cross hall,red cross,George VI,Queen mother
...ry to the Bishop of Portsmouth.  Dorothy never married and when the Second World War started she returned to Hoar Cross and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy.  In 1944 Lady Dorothy left Hoar Cross, as she was now a widow, and went to live in Richmond Green in Surrey and this is where her daughter went to live after she had finished her travels.  In 1947 Dorothy became a Lady-in-Waiting to H.R.H. The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at St James’s Palace for 12 years until her retirement.  Many years later she came to visit us at the Hall and gave us a small wooden...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #15

Posted by Viv Wilson on 26th January 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell,fox hunting,quorn hall,temple newsam,emily meynell,bowes-lyon,Eton college
...ry to the Bishop of Portsmouth.  Dorothy never married and when the Second World War started she returned to Hoar Cross and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy.  In 1944 Lady Dorothy left Hoar Cross, as she was now a widow, and went to live in Richmond Green in Surrey and this is where her daughter went to live after she had finished her travels.  In 1947 Dorothy became a Lady-in-Waiting to H.R.H. The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at St James’s Palace for 12 years until her retirement.  Many years later she came to visit us at the Hall and gave us a small wooden...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #11

Posted by Viv Wilson on 17th November 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,first world war,second world war,christian community,Goshen,El Alamein,HRH Princess Alice,Earl of Dartmouth
...ry to the Bishop of Portsmouth.  Dorothy never married and when the Second World War started she returned to Hoar Cross and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy.  In 1944 Lady Dorothy left Hoar Cross, as she was now a widow, and went to live in Richmond Green in Surrey and this is where her daughter went to live after she had finished her travels.  In 1947 Dorothy became a Lady-in-Waiting to H.R.H. The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at St James’s Palace for 12 years until her retirement.  Many years later she came to visit us at the Hall and gave us a small wooden...
 

Hoar Cross Hall - a bit of history #13

Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th September 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Quorn hunt,fox huntiing,william the conqueror,Florence,mediterranean,River Nile,British Empire
...ry to the Bishop of Portsmouth. Dorothy never married and when the Second World War started she returned to Hoar Cross and joined the Joint War Organisation of the Red Cross and St John which meant travelling overseas to Africa, Sicily and Italy. In 1944 Lady Dorothy left Hoar Cross, as she was now a widow, and went to live in Richmond Green in Surrey and this is where her daughter went to live after she had finished her travels. In 1947 Dorothy became a Lady-in-Waiting to H.R.H. The Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester at St James’s Palace for 12 years until her retirement. Many years later she came to visit us at the Hall and gave us a small wooden box whic...
 
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