Harris Digital Productions in association with Lowewood Museum is producing a film about the history of the Lea Valley Nursery Industry. A dedicated website has now been set-up where you can follow the production and learn about the history of market gardening in the Lea Valley. The programme features archive film footage (from our film archive) of Rochfords at Turnford which includes interviews... 

Harris Digital Productions in association with Lowewood Museum is producing a programme about the Lea Valley Nursery Industry. From at least the eighteenth century the lower Lea Valley was noted for its market gardens. Their continued growth during the nineteenth century owed much to a plentiful supply of water from wells, the access by rail for the delivery of the coal they used to heat the greenhouses.... 

Take a walk around the Lee Valley today and you’re unlikely to come up against anything more menacing than an enthusiastic cocker spaniel. It’s quite a shock then to discover that amongst its many artefacts which are steeped in local history Lowewood Museum is also home to a woolly mammoth tooth.  And not just any woolly mammoth tooth as this mind bogglingly large incisor was found within our... 

Lee Valley Leisure Pool THE popular Lee Valley Leisure Pool in Broxbourne will be demolished after 30 years as a regional attraction. Pool bosses have announced the facility will shut on 28 September 2008. The cost of improvements needed to bring the centre up to modern standards was the reason given for the closure by its owners, the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority. Park chiefs now hope to transform...