http://www.lowewood.com Your guide to local history, news and events in the Borough of Broxbourne Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.lowewood.com/news/mill-restoration http://www.lowewood.com/news/mill-restoration#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:58:06 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1020 In February and March, the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) carried out the first phase of the latest project to conserve the remains of the Mill and ensure ‘that it continues to stand as a window into a bygone age.  The plan of work to be done was set out on a display board [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/mill-restoration/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/donation-of-pulham-pots http://www.lowewood.com/news/donation-of-pulham-pots#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:36:27 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1706 A pair of ‘Pulham’ Pots have been generously donated to Lowewood Museum, High Street, Hoddesdon. The Mayor Councillor Mrs Lyn White will officially receive them at a handing over ceremony on Wednesday 9 September at 3pm at the museum. James Pulham and Son were eminent landscape gardeners of the 19th and early 20th centuries. They are [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/donation-of-pulham-pots/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/broxbourne-in-bloom-2009 http://www.lowewood.com/news/broxbourne-in-bloom-2009#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:45:44 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1601 Individual category winners have been announced in the annual Broxbourne in Bloom competition.  The competition invited residents, businesses and community groups within Broxbourne to enter their gardens for a chance to win up to £100 worth of gardening vouchers, donated by In-Ex Garden Centre in Goffs Oak. Mrs J Wells, from Goffs Oak was once again [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/broxbourne-in-bloom-2009/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/royal-rat-found-in-old-mustard-pot http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/royal-rat-found-in-old-mustard-pot#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:56:16 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1590 A well preserved rat was found within the walls of Broxbourne’s second oldest building,  The Old Mustard Pot and donated to the museum by bemused excavators in 1983. With parts of the building dating back to the time of Henry VIII the rodent’s history was no doubt an interesting one and its size even indicates [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/royal-rat-found-in-old-mustard-pot/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/st-augustine%e2%80%99s-church-broxbourne http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/st-augustine%e2%80%99s-church-broxbourne#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:40:21 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1461 A guide to St Augustine’s Churchyard The parish church of St Augustine’s is located in the Broxbourne conservation area and lies by the New River just off Station Road, Broxbourne. The church, completed around 1400, is a Grade I listed building of which there are only five in the borough. The southern chapel was erected in 1476 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/st-augustine%e2%80%99s-church-broxbourne/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:51 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=768 http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/a-history-of-broxbourne http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/a-history-of-broxbourne#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:16:13 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=483 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/a-history-of-broxbourne/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/up-the-tower http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/up-the-tower#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:05:09 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=115 Many and varied are the ways in which Englishmen choose to spend their Bank Holidays, but for Mr. Arthur Burton, of The Meadway, Hoddesdon, such holidays have, for the past 21 years, meant just one thing – acting as guide and mentor to visitors to Broxbourne Parish Church, and especially to those wishing to view [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/up-the-tower/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/the-monson-almshouses http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/the-monson-almshouses#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:02:19 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=109 One of the most interesting buildings in the High Road is the Monson Almshouses. They were erected in 1728 in accordance to the will of Dame Laetitia Monson, who also endowed them with a thousand pounds. Over the doorway of the building, which is a plain but typical example of the architecture of the period, [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/the-monson-almshouses/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/the-priests-house http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/the-priests-house#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:58:59 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=105 The Priest’s House, Broxbourne, presumably got its name from some association with the priests of Broxbourne Church, but although there is nothing to connect the house with the church or priests, there is a record showing that Robert Ecton, who was the eleventh Vicar of Broxbourne, was buried from the house in 1497. It would [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/broxbourne/the-priests-house/feed 0