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Moving On #33
Posted by Viv Wilson on 3rd September 1985 in Early Days | hoar cross hall,motor racing,bmx,servants,meynell,spooky,blog,victorian,GP 2,hotel,spa,burton
...week’s blog, we started our own business which ran for a few years then he went into the music business, starting his own recording studio in the 1980s. This led to opening another studio in Leicester in the 1990s and then onto opening a live music venue in Leicester city centre. Kev was also involved with running the annual 12 stage Abbey Park Festival in Leicester where we had our own stage for our club's bands. He was also involved in band management for a number of well known and chart topping artists and most of our lives have revolved around music, events and festivals.
After starting a family we moved to a village in Leicestershire. When I bec...Moving on - the end of an era #33
Posted by Viv Wilson on 2nd June 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell arms,Leicester,eBook,servant,2000,isport international,GP2
...week’s blog, we started our own business which ran for a few years then he went into selling and eventually into the music business, starting his own recording studio in the 1980s. This led to running another studio in Leicester in the 1990s and then onto buying a live music venue in Leicester City Centre. Kev was also involved with running the annual Abbey Park Festival in Leicester where we had our own stage for our club bands. He was also involved in band management and most of our lives have revolved around music, events and festivals, among other things.
After starting a family we moved to a village in Leicestershire. When I became pregnant wi...Moving On - the end of an era #32
Posted by Viv Wilson on 13th April 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,Leicester,Morzine,isport international,GP2,BMX,burton on trent
...week’s blog, we started our own business which ran for a few years then he went into selling and eventually into the music business, starting his own recording studio in the 1980s. This studio moved to Leicester in the 1990s and then we went on to buying a live music venue in Leicester City Centre. Kev was also involved with running the annual Abbey Park Festival in Leicester where we had our own stage for the bands who played at our club. He was also involved in band management and most of our lives have revolved around music related events and festivals, among other things.
After starting a family we moved to a village in Leicestershire. When I became preg...Moving On #35
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th February 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,meynell ingram arms,BMX,Morzine,haunted,Servants Hall,Victorian
...week’s blog, we started our own business which ran for a few years then he went into selling and eventually into the music business, starting his own recording studio in the 1980s. This studio moved to Leicester in the 1990s and then we went on to buying a live music venue in Leicester City Centre. Kev was also involved with running the annual Abbey Park Festival in Leicester where we had our own stage for the bands who played at our club. He was also involved in band management and most of our lives have revolved around music related events and festivals, among other things.
After starting a family we moved to a village in Leicestershire. When I became preg...
Becoming A Rock Chick! #17
Posted by Viv Wilson on 1st February 1975 in Early Days | rock chick,hoar cross hall,doobie brothers,steely dan,steelers wheel,the who,keith moon,easy rider,uttoxeter,burton on trent,hippy,college
...r another blog! The guinea pigs were safely put back into their hutch - not long after this we discovered that one of them had had babies when we weren’t looking! Not sure what happened in the Library but they were both supposed to be girls when we bought them!
After a couple of months at college I met a boy called Kev. He was in a band and his chat up line was that they needed a singer and he was pretty sure he could get me an audition (it must have worked as we’re still together all these years later!). I agreed, even though I’d done very little singing, and I went along to their rehearsal room one afternoon and got the job. So now I was front...
Aristocratic travels Part 2
Posted by Viv Wilson on 23rd July 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | Meynell,hoar cross hall,Ariadne,African,mediterranean
...ARISTOCRATIC TRAVELS PART 2: During the latter part of the 1800s Emily Charlotte Meynell travelled around the Mediterranean on board her schooner, Ariadne, recording her travels in her many diaries and drawing books, as mentioned in my previous blog. I have now found the photo of her yacht and one of her paintings; she was a skilled water colour artist as you can see but had a particular affection for nautical subjects. One particular holiday around Nice in the South of France with her brother Charles is documented by the water-colour paintings they both made. Soon after her husband Hugo's death in 1871, she embarked on a Mediterranean tour with her...