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Moving Out #31
Posted by Viv Wilson on 5th April 2020 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,ferrari,burton on trent,electronics engineer,estate agent,only fools and horses,antiques,go-karting
...o know an estate agent in the town which led to other work involving changing locks on houses, as the agents often lost the keys to the houses they were selling.
On one particular occasion Gavin set off in the company van to change a lock on one of the estate agents’ houses. The house was located along a road in Burton and he parked on the drive and went up to the front door. He noticed that the house was furnished and thought it a bit odd so he had a look around but couldn’t see anyone about. He did find a small window open though so in he climbed (good job he was thin) and set about changing the front door lock. After he had finished he drove back to the...
Meet the Neighbours - Shugborough Hall #80
Posted by Viv Wilson on 22nd May 2024 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall spa hotel,barons eden,meynell ingram,History,Stately home,haunted house,Thomas Anson,Shugborough Hall,the Library,The aristocracy,Chinese,Earl of Lichfield,Patrick Lichfield,Photographer,Cannock Chase,Queen Victoria,Queen Mary,Titanic Brewery
...The next house in this series is a mere half hour from Hoar Cross Hall and we often visited it during the summer months and later, when my children were born, we’d take them for a visit too! Seated on the edge of Cannock Chase this elegant house was once a manor house owned by the Bishops of Lichfield, until the dissolution of the monasteries around 1540. Later it came into the hands of the Anson family, who were ancestors of the Earls of Lichfield, and stayed there for three centuries. William Anson’s grandson, also called William, demolished the manor house in 1693 and built a three storey building in the Neo-Classical style which forms the central p...
Moving Out #32
Posted by Viv Wilson on 7th December 2022 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Meynell,burton on trent,Leicester,Derbyshire,GP2,Downton abbey,the crown,harry & meghann,antiques
...o know an estate agent in the town which led to other work involving changing locks on houses, as the agents often lost the keys to the houses they were selling.
On one particular occasion Gavin set off in the company van to change a lock on one of the estate agents’ houses. The house was located along a road in Burton-on-Trent and he parked on the drive and went up to the front door. He noticed that the house was furnished and thought it a bit odd so he had a look around but couldn’t see anyone about. He did find a small window open though so in he climbed (good job he was thin) and set about changing the front door lock. After he had finished he drove bac...
Moving Out#32
Posted by Viv Wilson on 28th October 1980 in Early Days | Fools and Horses,lock,oven,washing machine,Ferrari,Derby,Farmhouse,hoar cross hall
...o know an estate agent in the town which led to other work involving changing locks on houses as the agents often lost their keys to the houses they were selling.
On one particular occasion Gavin set off in the company van to change a lock on one of the estate agents’ houses. The house was located along a road in Burton and he parked on the drive and went up to the front door. He noticed that the house was furnished and thought it a bit odd so he had a look around but couldn’t see anyone about. He did find a small window open though so in he climbed (good job he was thin) and set about changing the front door lock. After he had finished he drove b...Moving Out #32
Posted by Viv Wilson on 27th May 2019 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Ferrari,Police,Derby,burton on trent,£1,Only Fools and Horses
...o know an estate agent in the town which led to other work involving changing locks on houses, as the agents often lost the keys to the houses they were selling.
On one particular occasion Gavin set off in the company van to change a lock on one of the estate agents’ houses. The house was located along a road in Burton and he parked on the drive and went up to the front door. He noticed that the house was furnished and thought it a bit odd so he had a look around but couldn’t see anyone about. He did find a small window open though so in he climbed (good job he was thin) and set about changing the front door lock. After he had finished he drove ba...Moving Out #34
Posted by Viv Wilson on 31st January 2021 in Growing Up In a Stately Home | hoar cross hall,Auction,go-karting,antiques,burton on trent,Ferrari
...o know an estate agent in the town which led to other work involving changing locks on houses, as the agents often lost the keys to the houses they were selling.
On one particular occasion Gavin set off in the company van to change a lock on one of the estate agents’ houses. The house was located along a road in Burton and he parked on the drive and went up to the front door. He noticed that the house was furnished and thought it a bit odd so he had a look around but couldn’t see anyone about. He did find a small window open though so in he climbed (good job he was thin) and set about changing the front door lock. After he had finished he drove back to the...