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.... 

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,...