The Weston Manor Hotel, showpiece of the lovely village of Weston-on-the-Green and where I worked as a dining-room waiter during 1974. The medieval Baron's Hall (present dining-room) was the bailiffs court for the Abbott of Osney who owned the house before the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII in the 16th century. Subsequently the great land owning families, the Earls of Abingdon and Berkshire - the "Norreys and Berties" resided at Weston Manor until the death of the last heir during the great war in 1917. The building was converted into a hotel in the late 1940's, and bought by its present owners, the Osborn family in 1983. The hotel owners at the time I was there were Mr. Archie Price and Mr. Nicholas Price (1963-1983). At the Weston Manor my boss was Mr.
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