Friends of the Month

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...

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

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

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

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

Based in North London Florence has a keen interest in her family history, raising awareness of the important influence of...

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

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

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...

Pauline Bowler has been closely involved with the parish and community of Lydiard Tregoze all her life, spending her early...

“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...

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

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

Colin Davies and his wife Marion have been members of the Friends since 2005 after Colin’s work at the BMW group in...

Our Friend of the Month for March is retired teacher Jane Caudwell, a regular “jogger” taking part in the weekly Lydiard...

This month our “Friend of the Month” is Billy Beaumont who talks here about what he loves about Lydiard and how he draws...