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Doing up a stately home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th June 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,dungeon,boot boy,flower room,chapel,skeleton,axeman
...y a burly axeman behind bars! A skeleton in chains was hanging on the wall for good measure! Not quite what went on in Victorian times but the visitors seemed to like it! I don’t think that ladder would pass any health and safety rules today though!
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THE RENOVATIONS BEGIN #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st September 1970 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,living in a stately home,hoar cross hall blog,1970's,growing up in a stately home,renovations
...THE RENOVATIONS BEGIN: As previously mentioned, there was an East Wing and a West Wing to the house. My dad decided to convert the first floor rooms of each wing into three separate apartments, as he had done at our previous house. This would generate income from rents until we got the main house open to the public. It wasn’t a big job to convert the rooms as the East Wing had four main rooms and two bathrooms already there, which would have been used as guest bedrooms in Victorian times. He made these into two, one-bedroom apartments and made small kitchens in the spaces which connected the lounge and bedroom, probably once used as cupboard space.
Th...DIY Stately Home #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 19th April 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Hoar Cross Hall,Meynell,Hessian Room,Damask Room,East Wing,West Wing,Visitors,Boot Boy,Execution Chamber,Kitchen,Downton Abbey,keeping up with the aristocrats,Bridgerton
...y a burly axeman behind bars! A skeleton in chains was hanging on the wall for good measure! Not quite what went on in Victorian times but the visitors seemed to like it! I don’t think that ladder would pass any health and safety rules today though!
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Follow me around my childhood home in my 'Tour of the Hall' – click here to view and subscribe to my youtube channel. OUT NOW!!! 'My Dad Bought a Mansion' is out in book form on Amazon - all my memoirs packed with lots of...Reburbishing our Mansion #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 4th November 2018 in Blogging | hoar cross hall,Victorian,Meynell,Chapel,Mission Impossible,armour,dungeon,execution chamber
...y a burly axeman behind bars! A skeleton in chains was hanging on the wall for good measure! Not quite what went on in Victorian times but the visitors seemed to like it! I don’t think that ladder would pass any health and safety rules today though!
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Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 14th September 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,execution chamber,Damask room,Victorian,skeleton
...y a burly axeman behind bars! A skeleton in chains was hanging on the wall for good measure! Not quite what went on in Victorian times but the visitors seemed to like it! I don’t think that ladder would pass any health and safety rules today though!
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...Our mansion gets a facelift #4
Posted by Viv Wilson on 18th May 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Chapel,damask room,Hessian room,servants hall,dungeon,execution chamber,skeleton
...y a burly axeman behind bars! A skeleton in chains was hanging on the wall for good measure! Not quite what went on in Victorian times but the visitors seemed to like it! I don’t think that ladder would pass any health and safety rules today though!
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