http://www.lowewood.com Your guide to local history, news and events in East Hertfordshire Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:34:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.lowewood.com/news/presenter-required http://www.lowewood.com/news/presenter-required#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:30:56 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2774 http://www.lowewood.com/news/presenter-required/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-football-club-look-back-in-amber http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-football-club-look-back-in-amber#comments Sat, 01 May 2010 19:07:53 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2787 Saturday 1 May – Saturday 31 July, 10 am – 4 pm, open Wednesday-Saturday A special exhibition at Lowewood Museum.  In July 1946, in a meeting at the Co-op Hall in Waltham Cross, it was decided to form a ‘new’ Cheshunt Football Club.  Fifteen years earlier, the ‘old’ Cheshunt had folded after a 50 year existence [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-football-club-look-back-in-amber/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/the-countess-of-huntingdons-college-cheshunt http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/the-countess-of-huntingdons-college-cheshunt#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:08:15 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2749 Harris Digital has acquired (and donated to Lowewood Museum) a superb print of the Countess of Huntingdon’s College, Cheshunt, which was published in ‘The Builder’  August 26, 1871. The premises have been occupied by two quite distinct establishments; Cheshunt College, for the training of Nonconformists Ministers, from 1792 until 1905, and Bishops’ College, for the Church [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/the-countess-of-huntingdons-college-cheshunt/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/fieldwalking-at-cullings-manor http://www.lowewood.com/news/fieldwalking-at-cullings-manor#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:59:36 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2724 http://www.lowewood.com/news/fieldwalking-at-cullings-manor/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/1936-by-tom-mcnab http://www.lowewood.com/news/1936-by-tom-mcnab#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:37:39 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2740 A play about the Berlin Olympics. A thrilling take on the run up to the Berlin Olympics in 1936, seen through the eyes of famous American journalist William Shirer. The stakes were high, the game played out on the world stage. Hitler craved power, and the German Jews were under threat. America was uneasy and [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/1936-by-tom-mcnab/feed 0 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/local/leisure/hello-dolly-at-broxbourne-civic-theatre http://www.lowewood.com/local/leisure/hello-dolly-at-broxbourne-civic-theatre#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:19:28 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2674 It Takes A Woman, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Before the Parade Passes By, Elegance, It Only Takes a Moment and of course the title song Hello Dolly are just a few of the musical numbers that are sure to delight audiences at the latest colourful and spectacular Broxbourne Theatre Company show. Based on Thornton Wilder’s [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/local/leisure/hello-dolly-at-broxbourne-civic-theatre/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/rye-house-generating-station http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/rye-house-generating-station#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:41:54 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2610 The old Rye House Generating Station was officially opened on July 22nd 1954 by the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire. The Station was designed and engineered by the North Metropolitan Power Station Company Ltd, with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott advising upon the architectural design. Under the Electricity Act, 1947, the Station became the responsibility of [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/rye-house-generating-station/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/st-mary%e2%80%99s-church-cheshunt http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/st-mary%e2%80%99s-church-cheshunt#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:20:58 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1476 A guide to St Mary’s Churchyard The parish church of St Mary the Virgin, located in the Churchgate Conservation Area, lies half a mile from Cheshunt Old Pond at the western side of College Road. The area has a rich history, containing several distinguished old buildings and a beautifully landscaped park. St Mary’s church provides an attractive [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/st-mary%e2%80%99s-church-cheshunt/feed 2 http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/hoddesdon-conservation-area http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/hoddesdon-conservation-area#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:05:03 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2599 The market town of Hoddesdon lies in the northern part of the Borough, about 18 miles from central London on the old High Road. The area has been inhabited since medieval times, and although the early history of Hoddesdon is obscure, it appears that the town began life as a small off-shoot of nearby Broxbourne. [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/hoddesdon-conservation-area/feed 0