The Hardmans House

Step back in time to the 1950s in this fascinating home and photographic studio
Take a guided tour of the Hardmans' House and explore the contrasting sides of this building: the neat, professional, spacious business rooms and the cluttered, cramped living quarters of the renowned portrait photographer Edward Chambré Hardman and his wife Margaret Hardman. They lived and worked here for 40 years, keeping everything and changing nothing.

The business focused on professional studio portraits but their real love was for vivid landscape images. Some of their huge collection of photographs is on display in the house, along with the equipment they used to take and develop the iconic images. As well as reading and hearing some evocative memories of former members of staff at the studio, visitors can:

- Discover iconic images taken by Edward.                                                                                                   

- Find out more about the eccentric characters of the Hardmans' from the staff that knew them
- Learn about the tough recruitment process that Margaret Hardman put new additions through. Show Less..