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Lest we forget #86
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th November 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Barons Eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,remembrance day,Poppy day,meynell ingram,al alamein,North Africa,RASC,military cross,Frist World War,Second World War,Volunteer,Hitler,Amazon,History,TB,disabled,invalid,my dad bought a mansion,Red Cross
...served in North Africa and Al Alamein as did Hugo Meynell. Who knows - they could have crossed paths during the war, my dad never dreaming for a moment that he would one day own Hugo's house! After North Africa he moved to Italy and spent a lot of time in Bari and Naples eventually moving up towards Belgium. He kept diaries of his time during the war and the one I have is from 1944-45 when the war ended and he was finally demobbed in January 1946 and safely home. It makes fascinating reading of another time when the future was so uncertain, not unlike today with the war in Ukraine and other places around the world. Most days my dad is writing about h...
Motor Racing Days #9
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th June 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,mallory park,Silverstone,Chasewater,Brands Hatch,volkswagon,colditz,Piers Courage,Fabian,North Africa
...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 in the 1930s. Because of this he became a despatch rider during the Second World War and spent a lot of time in North Africa. After the war he started racing motor bikes at nearby Donington Park and he raced there up to the beginning of the 1950s. After that he moved onto cars and drove a Cooper 5...
Aristocratic travels # 39
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th July 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,emily meynell,Nile,Africa,Mediterranean,Baltic,North Sea,Ariadne
...ARISTOCRATIC TRAVELS: Emily Charlotte Meynell, the original owner of Hoar Cross Hall, was probably one of the wealthiest independent women of the late 19th century in Britain. Her property included country estates around the Midlands, a London house in Eaton Square and a villa in Florence. For many years she owned a yacht, the latter a fully-crewed schooner of 380 tons. The family had large financial resources in addition to their estate income, through which they were sustained until well into the 20th century.
Emily cruised the Mediterranean every springtime in her yacht and occasionally crossed the North Sea to the Netherlands and Germany in the su...Lest We Forget #28
Posted by Viv Wilson on 11th November 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,second world war,first world war,Al Alamein,London,Red Cross,War Office,Military Cross,Hitler,Gestapo,Remembrance Day,RASC
...served in North Africa and Al Alamein as did Hugo Meynell. Who knows - they could have crossed paths during the war, my dad never dreaming for a moment that he would one day own Hugo's house! After North Africa he moved to Italy and spent a lot of time in Bari and Naples eventually moving up towards Belgium. He kept diaries of his time during the war and the one I have is from 1944-45 when the war ended and he was finally demobbed in January 1946 and safely home. It makes fascinating reading of another time when the future was so uncertain, not unlike today with the war in Ukraine and other places around the world. Most days my dad is writing about h...Celebrating VE Day #94
Posted by Viv Wilson on 8th May 2025 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,barons eden,hoar cross hall spa hotel,History,World War 2,World War 1,V E Day,D Day,Great Britain,TB,downton Abbey,Motor bike,RASC,Americans,Aeroplanes,period drama,V J Day,Victory,Meynell,wartime
...served in North Africa and Al Alamein as did Hugo Meynell. Who knows - they could have crossed paths during the war, my dad never dreaming for a moment that he would one day own Hugo's house! After North Africa he moved to Italy and spent a lot of time in Bari and Naples eventually moving up towards Belgium. He kept diaries of his time during the war and the one I have is from 1944-45 when the war ended and he was finally demobbed in January 1946 and safely home. It makes fascinating reading of another time when the future was so uncertain, not unlike today, with the war in Ukraine and other places around the world. Most days my dad is writing about...
Motor Racing Days #9
Posted by Viv Wilson on 20th October 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,lotus elite,mallory park,donington park,silverstone,graham hill,Sterling Moss,1950s,1960s,North Africa,second world war
...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 in the 1930s. Because of this he became a despatch rider during the Second World War and spent a lot of time in North Africa. After the war he started racing motor bikes at nearby Donington Park and he raced there up to the beginning of the 1950s. After that he moved onto cars and d...