Author name: Richard Clarke

Today’s photo shows the north side of All Saints church, Boughton (not 2025). My parent’s and sister’s grave is one with a headstone roughly in the middle of the picture. An interesting aspect of Ladbrooke’s work (s.p.b.s) is the fact that about 30 years earlier a person was doing the same thing in north Lincolnshire […]

My photo of the south walls of All Saints church Boughton (taken two years ago) shows clearly the Y tracery and intersecting tracery of the new windows 1872. The replacement roofing material not pantiles but North Wales slate, readily available nationwide by 1870. The three-stage buttress at the south-east corner of the nave looks very

In the book Hinton, Ian Ladbrooke’s Church Lithographs, Journal of the Norfolk Historic Buildings Trust, Vol. 8 (2025) all the lithographs produced by the father and son team in the 1820s/’30s, 600+ in total, are reproduced along with a modern photo taken from the same angle (as far as possible) and a few history notes;

The undulating landscape of south-west Norfolk, inviting the pastime on a clear day ‘How many church steeples can you see from here?’ begs the question ‘How has this landscape been created?’ It is certainly a glaciated landscape, although on the southern fringes of the glacial advances of the last glaciation, sometimes known as the Anglian

Today’s photo is taken from n old postcard showing the ‘Green’ (surviving) and buildings to the north, most of which survive. The local red brick reflects the iron content of the local topsoil clays as do the cliffs seen in the previous blog. Beyond the Green are the municipal gardens, more horticulturally interesting now than

The village of Boughton is situated in the agricultural area of south-west Norfolk. The middle tier of the county council government structure in Kings Lynn and West Norfolk. Around Boughton the area is characterised as quite a dense network of villages, to the north Fincham and Barton Bendish, to the east Oxbrough (with its famous