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Bruce Hedge
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 6th April 2021

From English Heritage outreach programmes to the restoration of the parkland and a paranormal experiment, Bruce Hedge has...

Sue Gray
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 1st March 2021

Since supporting the Friends successful campaign to protect Lydiard House and Park from outsourcing in 2016/17, art lover...

Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Collett
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 29th January 2021

From Commonweal School and Cub Scout camp at Lydiard Park to commanding The 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, Nigel...

Lynda Pidgeon
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 31st December 2020

Brought Up Of Nought: A History of the Woodvile Family by Lynda J. Pidgeon As a Swindonian I was always familiar with...

Joe Gibbs
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 27th October 2020

From his home, Belladrum in Scotland, long standing Friend Joe Gibbs describes the family connections with Lydiard Park that...

Frances Bevan
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 1st October 2020

Local historian and Friends of Lydiard Park trustee Frances Bevan has been breathing life into Lydiard characters and...

Robert Cooles
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 28th August 2020

My first visit to Lydiard Tregoze was in the fifth year at Sir Walter St John’s School in Battersea when a small party of...

Janet Cooper Tydeman
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 26th June 2020

“When my husband and I moved to Swindon eight years ago to be nearer the children, we did not know that Swindon had a park...

Michael Gray
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 4th June 2020

I first became interested in Lydiard House after a visit in 1983 to see the new extension project with the Borough...

Kate Griffin
Category: Lydiard Friends Published on: 5th May 2020

Kate Griffin, her family and a very special pony called Sidney became familiar faces at Lydiard Park during the 1980’s,...