Landmark Chronicles: Celebrating 60
To mark 60 years since Landmark was founded, the British Library approached us to capture the story of the Landmark Trust through in-depth interviews with six long-standing members of staff.
Those interviews will be stored for posterity and made available in the British Library’s National Life Stories archive, but we've also turned some highlights from each interview into podcasts, for a behind-the-scenes glimpse over six decades of life at Landmark.
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Episode 1: The Chairman’s Story
In this episode we hear from Martin Drury CBE, who was on the board of Trustees of the Landmark Trust for 23 years between 1988 and 2011, including 13 years as Chairman. Beginning with his meeting with Landmark founder John Smith whilst working at the National Trust in the early 1970s, Martin takes us back to where it all began.
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Episode 2: The Housekeeper’s Story
Wendy Sargeant has been a housekeeper for Landmark in Staffordshire for 25 years, first at Tixall Gatehouse and then at Ingestre Pavilion, where she works alongside her friend Sarah Winter. Here, Wendy tells us about her time with Landmark and what it takes to get a building ready for its next visitors.
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Episode 3: The Lundy Island Manager’s Story
In this episode, we meet Lundy Island’s Managing Director, Derek Green, and follow his extraordinary journey from Glasgow shipyard apprentice to managing a wildlife rich island in the Bristol Channel.
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Episode 4: The Furnishing Manager's Story
In this episode, we meet former Furnishings Manager, John Evetts. Working with the Landmark Trust for almost 50 years from 1976 up to his retirement in 2024, John helped to define Landmark’s distinctive interior style - furnishing more than 200 historic buildings during his time here.
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Episode 5: Linda's Story
As one of Landmark’s longest standing staff members, Linda Millard has worked at the heart of the organisation for 42 years. In this episode of the Landmark Chronicles, Linda takes us through five decades of the Landmark Trust, as the charity’s many milestone moments interweave with the twists and turns of her own life.
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Episode 6: The Historian's Story
