Staunton Harold – January 2019 Bulletin

Shortly after I was first married, my wife and i invited her old school friend Marcia to stay for a weekend, with her husband and small son.    The lad was at the crawling stage, and his toys were spread all over the floor.   When he’d gone to bed we began tidying up,...

Staunton Notebook – December 2018

We bought the last of the farms and woodland on the Coleorton Estate from Sir George Beamont in 1966.   It had been his family seat for five hundred years, though they’d sold the hall and moved away forty years earlier.   The land adjoined our Staunton Harold...