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The Boardman Family Albums Index |
| The Norwich
architect Edward
Boardman and his family enjoyed their holidays
on The Broads. In the
early part of the 20th Century, he designed and
built a holiday home for
the family at How Hill at the western end of
Ludham on the banks of the
River Ant. It was completed in 1904. The house was enlarged in 1915 and the family moved there permanently. How Hill House has gone on to be one of the best known landmarks in the area and the How Hill estate, now managed by the Broads Authority, offers public access, a nature reserve and nature trail plus a museum at Toad Hole cottage. You can find more information about the Boardman family in this page.  |
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How Hill House in 1912 before the large front and side extensions were built.
The Ludham Community Archive Group has been given access to the Boardman Family photograph albums. There are no less than 15 volumes of photographs taken by Mrs Boardman and members of the family. These photographs are wonderful survivors and are a fascinating social history as well as a record of what it was like to grow up in the area 100 years ago. The Boardmans were a wealthy family and this is reflected in the photographs and also in the sheer quality of the images which were taken using first rate equipment.
There are thousands of photographs and the Ludham Archive Group has undertaken to scan and preserve them all as well as to make them available to a wider audience. Obviously, we cannot put them all on this website, but we have gathered together a selection which we hope you will find of interest. They show the Boardman children growing up and they show the How Hill area of Ludham. We hope you enjoy exploring them as much as we have. We would like to thank Shirley Place and Pauline Boardman for allowing us to copy the photographs.
The photographs have been grouped by date as they were in the original albums. Just click on a year from the list below and enjoy.
Dated pictures up to 1923 are from Florence Boardman's albums. Others from this period come from Michael Boardman's albums. From 1927 to 1932 we are looking at Humphrey Boardman's photographs, and later pictures are from Michael Boardman's Albums.
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