Teacher, Artist and Curator of Photographic History in Britain.

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Projects

The Vale and the Forest Mendip Cloud Studies Charnwood (Rural Commision) Open Weekends and Sunny Afternoons The Sleeping Photographer: Belvoir Castle Heimr (A Space For Humans)

Exhibitions

Charnwood at Timber Festival (2021) Heimr at White Moose Gallery (2018)

Links

F. W. Broadhead Collection Matthew Broadhead's Collection of Historical Photographs Leicester Photographers 1854-1904
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Timeline of photographic studios operated by Frederick William Broadhead

Before 1869

84 Humberstone-road, Leicester

Source: Leicester Journal November 26, 1869

1869

18 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Leicester Journal November 26, 1869

1870

74 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Street, Alphabetical & Trade Directory of Leicester 1870

1871

(74 Welford-road, Leicester)

1872

74 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London

1873

74 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London

1874

(74 Welford-road, Leicester)

1875

72 & 74 Welford-road, Leicester

Cattle Market, Leicester

Market Place, Loughborough

Source: Commercial and General Directory & Red Book of Leicester, 1875

1876

72 & 74 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Post Office Directory of Leicester & Rutland, 1876

Market Place, Loughborough

Source: Appears on photographs of this period

1877

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: History, Gazeteer & Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1877

Market Place, Loughborough

Source: Appears on photographs of this period

1879

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Daily Mercury January 7, 1879

Gallowtree-gate, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Daily Mercury October 28, 1879

1880

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicester Mercury November 13, 1880

1881

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire & Rutland, 1881

1882

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicester Mercury June 10, 1882

1883-84

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Thirtieth Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition

Source: Wright’s Directory of Leicester & Fifteen Miles Round 1883-84

55 Welford-road, Leicester

(5) High-street, Market Harborough

Source: Wright’s Directory of Leicester & Fifteen Miles Round 1883-84

1885

65 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Twenty-ninth Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition

55 Welford-road, Leicester

Imperial Buildings, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury February 28, 1885

1886

55 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Thirty-first Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition

Source: Confirmed by a family photograph dated 1886 in Dick and Pam Everard’s family archive

Imperial Buildings, Leicester

Source: Confirmed by a family photograph dated 1886 in Dick and Pam Everard’s family archive

1887-88

65 Welford-road, Leicester (listing error, as ... is at this address)

55 Welford-road, Leicester

24 Gallowtree-gate, Leicester

Imperial Buildings, Halford-street, Leicester

5 High-street, Market Harborough

Source: Wright’s Directory of Leicestershire, 1887-88

1888

55 Welford-road

Source: The Photographic News February 24, 1888

Imperial Buildings, Leicester

Source: Confirmed by a family photograph dated 1886 in Dick and Pam Everard’s family archive

1889-90

55 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Thirty-fourth Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition

Source: Wright’s Directory of Leicester and Twelve Miles Round, 1889-90

63 Regent-street (Southfields), Leicester

Source: Wright’s Directory of Leicester and Twelve Miles Round, 1889-90

1890

(55) Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Supplement to the Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury October 11, 1890

Imperial Buildings, Halford-street, Leicester

Source: The Graphic August 30, 1890

1891

55 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury October 31, 1891

323 High Holborn, London

Source: The Photographic News - November 27, 1891

(2 Museum Terrace), New Walk, Leicester

Source: Composite photograph of Leicester’s first town council is dated November 2, 1891

1892

55 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Carte de visite with 44 London-road and 55 Welford-road on the front

44 London-road, Leicester

Source: Leicester Photographic Studios in Victorian and Edwardian Times: Compiled Primarily from Local Directories by Bernard V. and Pauline F. Heathcote - RPS Historical Society supplement

(2 Museum Terrace, New Walk, Leicester)

1893

(2) Museum Terrace, New Walk, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and Leicestershire Mercury - July 22, 1893

1894

2 Museum Terrace, New Walk, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury – April 21, 1894

1895

(2 Museum Terrace), New Walk, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury – May 11, 1895

30 Gallowtree-gate, Leicester

Source: Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland 1895

1896

19 London-road, Leicester

2 Museum Terrace, New Walk, Leicester

Stanley Chambers, Gallowtree-gate, Leicester

Source: The London Gazette

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury – December 12, 1896

1897

19 London-road, Leicester

2 Museum Terrace, New Walk, Leicester

Stanley Chambers, Gallowtree-gate, Leicester

Source: The London Gazette

1898

Stockdale Terrace, 19 London-road, Leicester

Source: Leicester Photographic Studios in Victorian and Edwardian Times: Compiled Primarily from Local Directories by Bernard V. and Pauline F. Heathcote - RPS Historical Society supplement

1899

2 Belvoir-street, Leicester

Source: Kelly’s Directory of Leicestershire and Rutland, 1899

(102) Welford-road, Leicester

Source: The Leicester Chronicle and the Leicestershire Mercury – October 21, 1899

1900

55 Chestnut-street, Leicester

102 Welford-road, Leicester

Source: Leicester Photographic Studios in Victorian and Edwardian Times: Compiled Primarily from Local Directories by Bernard V. and Pauline F. Heathcote - RPS Historical Society supplement

1901

High-street, Coalville

Source: 1901 census for Frederick William Broadhead and Leah Reeves

Source: Cabinet card with ‘Broadhead & Co’, ‘High-street, Coalville’ printed on the front

Anything in closed brackets () is an assumption based on cross-examination of records. 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1878, 1886 are years that there are currently no sources.

Distilled version


18 Welford-road: 1869

74 Welford-road: 1870-1874

72 & 74 Welford-road: 1875- 1876

Market Place, Loughborough: 1875-c.1882

65 Welford-road: 1877-1883

5 High-street, Market Harborough: 1883-c.1896?

55 Welford-road: 1884- 1892

Imperial Buildings: 1885-1890

24 Gallowtree-gate: 1887-1888?

63 Regent-street: 1889-1890

30 Gallowtree-gate: 1895

Stanley Chambers, Gallowtree-gate: 1896-1897

2 Museum Terrace: 1891- 1897

Stockdale Terrace, 19 London-road: 1898

2 Belvoir-street: 1899

102 Welford-road: 1899-1900

55 Chestnut-street: 1901

High-street, Coalville: 1901

There may be overlap between studios such as when F. W. Broadhead moved from 65 Welford-road to 55 Welford-road between 1883/1884.