Bulletin 111 – September 2015

Vintage Market – Sunday 6th September 2015 On this day the staff cars will be banished from their usual parking spot behind the Ferrers Centre, and their place taken by stalls selling vintage and handmade goods.  This is a new departure for our centre, but if...

Bulletin 110 – August 2015

Living with our Mistakes When we bought into the Estate in 1955 there was still a home farm, which had provided milk and meat to the family when Earl Ferrers lived at the Hall.  Bob Bignall, the farmer, and his son David lived in the two houses at the top of the...

Bulletin 109 – July 2015

The Choices We Make  This Estate only contains a handful of rural houses and cottages, and we rarely have one vacant.  In the next few months a pretty two bed cottage will be coming empty, and we have been debating how best to relet it.  There is a trend to turn such...

Bulletin 107 – May 2015

An Accidental Craft Centre In 1955 my parents bought the former stable block of Staunton Harold Hall, semi derelict and ‘thrown in’ with the Home Farm.  We repaired the roof and then tried for nearly twenty years to find a use for the building.  We had...

Bulletin 106 – April 2015

I have had a minor involvement with film makers going back more than fifty years.  When ‘Women in Love’ was being shot at nearby Elvaston Castle they needed some linked sausages for a market scene, and our butchery business supplied them.  A few years...

Bulletin 105 – March 2015

In 1974 a potter was my first tenant in the vast building known as the Ferrers Centre which had stood empty since before the Second World War.  A great many artists and craftspeople have worked here since then.  Over time we have brought all the rooms into use, and...