Shimla (Simla) is also mentioned several times in the memoir of Esther's mother-in-law Emily Elliott, who travelled there with her husband John.
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Shimla with Christ Church prominently visible. Picture taken ~1887.
Shimla now (image from http://www.panoramio.com/photo/13209483).
Christ Church, Shimla, in ~1887.
Christ Church, Shimla, now (image from http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1135216)
Shimla, possibly looking towards Longwood.
Woodhall Cottage
The residence of Col. John Edward Broadbent (1845-1931) and his family. It is in a neighbourhood now called Longwood, almost certainly because John Broadbent's family home in Huddersfield, where he grew up, was called Longwood Edge. DBHB's great grandmother Esther Broadbent (1873-1959) spent some of her childhood here:
(Left to right) Col. John Edward Broadbent (1845-1931), his daughter Esther Broadbent (1873-1959), Vishnu, Mallu, Col. Theodore Broadbent (b.1881), Esther's mother Dora Nicholson (1844-1897), and friend Martha Cooke, at Woodhall Cottage, Longwood, Shimla. Picture probably taken ~1887 (making Esther 14 years old).
Woodhall Cottage from above.
Woodalls
On her blog at http://afewrandomideas.blogspot.com/2009/02/woodalls.html, Amu recalls living in this same house, now called Woodalls. She has confirmed that it is the same house, although sadly she also ruled out the possibility that the name on the cupboard door (see below) might be that of Esther Broadbent (1873-1959):
"One of the first things that I saw was the dining room cupboard where my mom kept all the crockery. And someone (probably a girl like me) who had lived in the house at some point of time, had signed her name, her school's name and the year on the inner side of the door, and other children who had lived in that house later had done that too. I promptly looked for some chalk and did the same."