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/walthamcross/shops/whsmith-waltham-cross http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/shops/whsmith-waltham-cross#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:00:56 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2696 The town centre is a a bustling pedestrianised shopping district attracting shoppers to the mix of chain stores and independent shops, supermarkets, banks, a covered shopping mall (Pavilion) and the department store Fishpools which has been in the town since 1899. A general market is held on Wednesdays and Fridays, plus occasional French and farmers’ [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/shops/whsmith-waltham-cross/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/queen-eleanor-memorial http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/queen-eleanor-memorial#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:13:22 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=271 Perhaps the most striking relic of medieval times in our district is the Queen Eleanor memorial at Waltham Cross. It is one of twelve which were built by Edward I to mark the resting places of the funeral cortege of his consort on its way from Harby, in Lincolnshire, to London. Eleanor died at Harby [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/queen-eleanor-memorial/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-news http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-news#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:53:42 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=740 http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-news/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/classic-car-day http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/classic-car-day#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:36:12 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1184 The Council organises several community events throughout the year. Be sure to come and visit the town centres for the special events and bring the family. The events are free to visitors and exhibitors of vehicles. Classic Car Day – Saturday 15 August – Waltham Cross (10am – 3pm) The Classic Car Day is growing in popularity with [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/classic-car-day/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/b24-liberator-bomber-crash http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/b24-liberator-bomber-crash#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:30:53 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=608 England 1944. A SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH Some fifteen miles North of London there are two small parishes, Waltham Cross and Cheshunt, two separate names but almost as one. On the 12 August 1944 just before 0800 hrs a B24 Liberator 42-95023 (a/c #023) bomber from the 392nd B/G appeared from the South, very low just below the cloud ceiling which was about 2000 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/b24-liberator-bomber-crash/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/news/sainsburys-searching-for-memories http://www.lowewood.com/news/sainsburys-searching-for-memories#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:21:43 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=538 WALTHAM Cross supermarket Sainsbury’s is on the lookout for memories from the aisles over the last three decades. As part of the chain’s 140th birthday celebrations, Sainsbury’s hope to find customers and staff to reminisce about the days before self-scan checkouts, organic food and chip and pin for their forthcoming in-store celebrations. Store manager Steven Swann said: [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/sainsburys-searching-for-memories/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/waltham-new-town http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/waltham-new-town#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:22:47 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=285 The Holdbrook development was an ambitious redevelopment of the area formely known as Waltham New Town. The nucleaus of the New Town dated from about 1860 and is believed to have been a direct result of the invention of guncotton at the Waltham Abbey powder mills and the consequent demand for increased labour. In 1869 Dr. [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/waltham-new-town/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/tramways-and-buses http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/tramways-and-buses#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:19:42 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=280 In 1904, the metropolitian tramway network reached Waltham Cross. One year earlier a Hertfordshire County Council Tramways Act was passed, with proposals to provide a service as far as Wormley. It was never put into effect – not, as some people supposed, because the Four Swans sign was in the way, but no doubt because [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/tramways-and-buses/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/holy-trinity-church http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/holy-trinity-church#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:15:32 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=276 Holy Trinity Church, built as a chapel of ease to the parish church of Cheshunt in 1832 became the parish church of the new parish of Waltham Cross in 1855. The exterior is brick in the perpendicular style. The interior is plain, almost austere, and the original chapel consisted of a nave and chancel only. [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/holy-trinity-church/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/death-from-tetanus http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/death-from-tetanus#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:10:18 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=267 Today one expects to receive an anti-tetanus injection after any minor accident, and the general practitioner offers courses of inoculation for those whose work entails risk of cuts or skin abrasions. In the early 1960s the writer’s doctor considered that every car driver should have such protection. It is sad to read of the case, just [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/death-from-tetanus/feed 0