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Apr 14th, 2009 // No Comment

Have you been researching your family’s past or the history of your house?
Did your ancestors have an interesting past?
Do you have an interesting story to tell?

Lowewood Museum is currently looking for interesting stories associated with the borough for our forthcoming media channel, which launches later this year. The Borough of Broxbourne covers Rye Park, Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Wormley, Turnford, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Goffs Oak and Flamstead End.

Did you appear in any of the Hoddesdon Newsreels?
Did you work at the old Rye House Power Station?
Did your parents have a well-known family business?
Did you work for Rochfords, Pollards or Stevens or any of the nurseries within the Lea Valley?

We would also like to hear from anyone who went to Cheshunt Grammar School - formely in Windmill Lane or Hazlewood School, Burford Street, Hoddesdon during the 50s and 60s.

Do you have any old cine film or photographs that tell a story about your family’s past?

Please contact John Harris by email or the curator at the museum.

Do you have a photo that tells a story about your family’s past? Upload it to our website using the form below (or email yourhistory@lowewood.com) and we will feature your images in our new gallery section, which we will be launching soon. Your photos must have a link with the area.

Below is an example:

My mother and her sister at New Farm, Ware Road, Hoddesdon

This picture of my mother, Dorothy Reed (left) and her sister Eileen, was taken in 1910/11. They were on holiday in Dorset and brought back this sheep as a pet, which they kept on my grandparents farm.

My grandparents Esther Margret and George Lewis Reed, lived at New Farm in Ware Road, Hoddesdon, where my mum and her sister worked. My mother married Griffiths Giddings, the eldest son of Charles Giddings, a well known sculptor.

Picture location: New Farm, Ware Road, Hoddesdon, Herts
Date of scene: 1910/11
Sent by: Pat Forsaith

You can learn more about New Farm in Ware Road, Hoddesdon and Charles Giddings in a forthcoming feature.

Please use this form to submit your photos online.

Please note: Your images must be history related and have a local connection. Please provide as much information as possible.

To upload your image, click the browse button and locate the image on your computer.

When you have completed the form and entered the security code, click the submit button. Please wait for the confirmation. This may take a few seconds – depending on the size of the image is and the speed of your internet connection.

Use the form below or email your history to yourhistory@lowewood.com

Your Name (required)

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Image title

Choose the image to upload
Click on the "Browse" button and select the image from your computer

Attach Image

Enter a description and identify people in your photo

Picture location (where the image was taken if known)

Date of scene (when the image was taken if known)

Enter the above Security Code in the box below

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IN CONSIDERATION of and for the use of Lowewood Museum facilities it is agreed as follows: By submitting any material, including photographs and accompanying text, you thereby automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) to Lowewood Museum an irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, and universal right and license to use and display the said submitted material in conjunction with this site without compensation to you. You also grant others to download and use the photos for their own private use, including but not limited to personal genealogical research. Those who download photos can not profit from them in any manner. By such submission, you also warrant that you have the necessary rights or ownership to grant permission to display the image. Lowewood Museum specifically disclaims any copyrights in your image or text, except that Lowewood Museum as a whole is a copyrighted concept of its owners. You specifically and explicitly agree that you will not upload images of a pornographic, defamatory, or inappropriate nature. You also agree that you will not upload other binary content such as software programs, illegal copies of software programs, or knowingly upload files containing a computer virus or material in violation of copyright law. Your name and email address are required in the event someone researching your family wishes to contact you. It will, however, not be sold to any third party or used for anything but normal communications purposes. Lowewood Museum and its editors reserve the right to refuse or to remove a submission for any reason. Any content that does not meet editorial standards will not be included in Lowewood Museum website. Lowewood Museum and its editors, and the owners of this site take no responsibility for checking the veracity of information, claims, and copyright status of material presented here. Lowewood Museum services are offered on an AS IS basis, with no express or implied warranty. Although Lowewood Museum does not normally pre-check for copyright violation, any content reported to the editors by authorized representatives of a copyright owner as constituting an infringement will be removed as soon as possible.
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