Hunts of Sedgeford

This page contains links to various resources related to the Hunt family who lived at Sedgeford Hall between 1880 and 1898.

The original Alice Hunt collection

The Alice Hunt collection is stored in numbered boxes. Each box contains a number of photographic places which are not not necessarily related to each other either by subject or date. This album simply presents each box of pictures as they are stored.

The Alice Hunt collection reorganised

This is my attempt at organising the Alice Hunt collection along some sort of lines in order to make sense of it.

The hardest part of this work was to try and order the pictures of the family into date order. A very few of the pictures are dated but most are not. So I have tried to order them by making a judgement of the age of the subjects.

We have also done much work in identifying many of the locations that were previously unknown. There are still a few unidentified places and any help in working out where they are will be gratefully received.

Norfolk then & now

This is a study of pictures from the Alice Hunt collection alongside modern day views of the same subjects. I have tried to take a picture from as close as I can possibly identify to the place that Alice took her picture.

The Woodgate albums

These are scans of albums that the Purdy family of Woodgate House in Aylsham, Norfolk gave me.

The albums contain many pictures from the Alice Hunt collection and, in many cases, provided a greater insight into the collection. There are also many pictures that are not in the collection and are likely to be either pictures that were taken by Alice but the plates are lost or pictures taken by third parties.

Walter Hunt’s diary for 1885

Along with the Woodgate albums came a diary for 1885. It turned out to be the diary of Alice’s husband, Walter Hunt.

Walter was a Justice of the Peace for North Norfolk and also a member of the Board of Guardians of the Docking Union that ran the Docking workhouse.

1885 saw several events in the life of the Hunt family including

• The birth of their seventh son, Francis Whittaker
• The death of Walter’s nephew, James Edward Hunt
• The 1885 general election in which Walter is involved with the local Conservative party
• Attending two balls at Sandringham House