Norfolk Broads

Norfolk Broads
When the Norfolk artist and writer, Philippa Miller, died in 2002, she left a number of hand-written and typed manuscripts, a substantial collection of paintings and sketches and several thousand photographs - all of which she had generated during her long life lived almost entirely in and around the Norfolk Broads. These words and pictures offered a very intimate but revealing account of Broadland from her birth in 1905 through to the immense changes to the nation and its people brought about by the Second World War.
Although 'Pippa' as she was called by her friends continued to record the highlights of her life in Norwich after she retired from teaching in the Sixties, it was her words and pictures of those transitional years from the end of Queen Victoria's reign to the middle of the Twentieth Century that were so invaluable in this new century when so much of the past has been swept aside or lost from memory. She had lived through a time when the Norfolk Broads were still navigated by the old black-sailed trading wherries, when windmills and water- mills still turned across the largely unspoiled landscape, and tourists had not yet arrived in the huge numbers that now flock to the area every year.
Little seems to have escaped her sharp mind and keen eye, her ever-present camera and deft pencil and brush. Undeniably, she enjoyed what was truly a 'Golden Age' and captured it painstakingly in words and pictures.