Our Friend of the Month is Debra Melsom, whose ancestors lived and worked within the Bolingbroke estate, worshipped and...
April James joined the Friends in 2021 and provides minute-taking support to the Trustees at their regular meetings. I...
Mike Montagu is the Host & Historian at Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire where he was until very recently Bursar for over...
It was a lucky day for the Friends when Julie joined us! Here she describes the surprise gift which turned into years of...
My first encounter with Lydiard House and Park was in the summer of 1965 when one Saturday afternoon my father announced...
After some years of commuting within my love triangle, Bournemouth being home, Bristol for work and Swindon to visit my...
‘Living in Shaw as a boy in the 1960’s Lydiard Park was our playground, being only about five fields away. We messed...
Friends trustee Per- Axel Warensjo recounts, ‘My family and I moved permanently to Swindon from Sweden in January 1992. I...
‘For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by graveyards and cemeteries’ says Tania O’Halloran. ‘ They...