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About Champney's
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Champneys is an estate established during the medieval period near Wigginton, Hertfordshire. Today the estate comprises a large house built in the French Second Empire style and associated buildings set in its own landscaped grounds of around 200 acres (0.81 km2).
It is also the brand name of a destination spa group in the United Kingdom comprising four spa resorts and six day spas owned by the Purdew family. Visit the Champney's website About Wiggington
Wigginton (Wigentone - 1086) is a large village and civil parish running north-south and perched at 730 ft (220 m) on the edge of the Chiltern Hills and aside the border with Buckinghamshire. It is part of Dacorum district in the county of Hertfordshire. The nearest towns are Tring in Hertfordshire and Chesham and Wendover, both in Buckinghamshire.
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I arrived from Israel in London on the 31st of August 1997, a day I shall not forget, as it was the day princess Diana died. My first recollection of London is people in mourning laying flowers everywhere. shortly after, I got a job as a kitchen porter at Champney's Health spa, near Tring in Hertfordshire. The horse stables were converted into staff quarters and all menial staff lived there, Frenchmen, South Africans, Poles, Scots and Welsh. The kitchen was under construction, so a temporary facility housed the kitchen. I scrubbed pots and pans for 9 hours a day and made sure the kitchen area remained clean. The chefs were kind to me and I regularly had the opportunity to have a taste of their 5 star creations. My friend Carl from South Africa had a job working on a Brussels sprout farm. I managed to get him a position as dishwasher at Champney's and we shared great experiences, both in and out of the kitchen. On Weekends, I worked at the Greyhound pub in Wiggington village as a barman for some extra cash, that is if we weren't traveling.
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