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Christmas at Lydiard Park - a wartime ghost story narrated by the author, Elizabeth St.John

A heart warming and atmospheric Christmas story read by the author Elizabeth St.John.

Elizabeth weaves her gentle ghostly tale around two captains; the real life character of Captain Edward St.John who died at Lydiard in 1645 and the fictionalised Captain Erich Hoffner, a patient in the German Prisoner of War hospital camp in Lydiard Park during the bitterly cold Christmas of 1944.

Click here to view Elizabeth's reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sj93oeoPq0

Year
2020
Author
Elizabeth St.John
Type
Other Book
Copyright
Elizabeth St.John
Last updated on
Sunday 20th September 2026
Christmas at Lydiard by Elizabeth St.John
Christmas at Lydiard by Elizabeth St.John

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