Hi,
Thank you for your comments.
I switch beteen Designer and Photo because I need to use tools from both in my workflow.
The document was originally made in Designer and then bought into Photo (the screenshot is in photo, hence posting in this section of the forum).
The document was made by making the whole artboard a symbol, so that the artboard (and symbols of that artboard) would all look idential and have the same layers within them. I don't like doing it this way, I just don't know of any better way of making these repeat patterns in Affinity products.
I can't make the artboards different names, when I rename one they are all renamed together.
All of my layers are neatly inside of the artboard, I have the layer that should be visible selected in my screenshot so you can see the boudary box.
I hope that helps calrify a few things.
Thanks for taking a look,
James