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Duck
Shoot at Crome's Broad
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These pictures are from Chris Boardman's Albums.
Crome's Broad is on the How Hill Estate and is half in Ludham and half in Catfield. You can visit it on the How Hill Nature Trail in the summer months. In the Boardman's time at How Hill, they used the Broad for duck shooting. Here we see a collection of pictures showing what happened at a duck shoot. The pictures are probably from the 1930s.
After a busy day's shooting, Left to right, Michael Boardman, Humphrey Boardman, Jack Williams, Chris Boardman, Smithson.
A cold day by the River Ant. (Crome's Broad connects to the Ant by a dyke)
Maintenance work to the dykes
Shooting was done from hides along the edge of the broad.
In a rather precarious looking reed hide
Waiting for duck
The dog looks hopeful but he is not going to shoot much with that brush. Dogs were used to retrieve shot birds.
Shooting from a reed hide at Crome's Broad
With some of the dogs.