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/hoddesdon/the-spinning-wheel-hoddesdon http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/the-spinning-wheel-hoddesdon#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:26:45 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=1065 The Spinning Wheel is a grade II listed building, and when first built in 1849, it was called the Italian Cottage, having a northern Italian and Swiss influence to its architecture. With its deep bracketed eaves and gabbles it is without doubt a lovely building an a rare example of what is known as a [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/the-spinning-wheel-hoddesdon/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/hoddesdon-bank http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/hoddesdon-bank#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:29:35 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=224 Hoddesdon’s first Bank opened in the High Street, on the corner of what we know today as Brocket Road in the 1870s, as a branch of the Hertford bank of Tuke, Lucas and Seebohm.   Mr. Septimus Warner was the first manager, followed by his son, Mr. Howard L. Warner (who in his time took quite a [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/hoddesdon/hoddesdon-bank/feed 0