LIFE IS A CIRCUS
How knitwear designer Alex Gore Browne came to live at Tidmington House ten years ago is the stuff fairytales are made of. Her and husband Jo Bamford had been invited down from Staffordshire to stay with his parents, Sir Anthony and Lady Carole Bamford, who own nearby Daylesford House – a 150-acre Georgian estate.
“It’s quite a sweet story, actually. We were driving home and Jo said, ‘I really have to show you this house, it’s so pretty’, he studied architectural history at university, so he’s always been interested in buildings.
“We took a different route home, slowing down and then stopping outside this beautiful house – admiring it from the road. Then about two years later it went up for sale, and we were lucky enough to buy it.”
The couple now share the
