Binfield Park, Du pont, Nylon & Richard Tauber

Had a very interesting afternoon......

Grandad owned Binfield Park from the late 1960s through to the early 1990s.

This morning, I had a phone call from Peter Kopik, the current co-owner of Binfield Park. He rang Park Farm and fortunately I was in the office to answer the call. We chatted for a quarter of and hour or so and it resulted in him inviting Grandad & I up to Binfield Park for a look around. I had never been up there before.

We arrived and spent an hour or so looking around with Paul & Peter (and their 2 dogs!). I am unsure of the ownership details but from what I gather there are 3 Kopik brothers that own Binfield Park and over the time they have owned it, they have gradually improved/re-developed the buildings that stand there. Grandad walked around explaining how various parts of the buildings have changed compared to what he remembers. He had a good recollection of how the farm used to be laid out.

I spent some time talking to both brothers. Peter told us how Binfield Park was owned by the DuPont family which has now become a major American Chemical Company. He expained that the DuPont enterprise invented Nylon and it was so called because of the New York & London connection.

Grandad also told me that Richard Tauber, an Austrian tenor used to live in the bungalow next door to Binfield Park.