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public with the collection displayed throughout the house. In 1974, the family started to run medieval banquets, which became a success and continued almost weekly until the family sold the hall. In 1989, businessman Steve Joynes MBE bought the hall and refurbished it, creating a new health spa, and in 2012, his son took over the day-to-day running of the hall.
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The original Hoar Cross Estate comprised 490 acres and was bought for 18 pence in 1450 during Henry VI's reign, including a moat and a drawbridge, common in Tudor estate houses. It is reported that onlookers would simply turn up, just to set eyes on the building. It survived for nearly 300 years
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