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... 

Local  news, sports and weather from around the Borough of Broxbourne, which covers Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Wormley, Turnford, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Goffs Oak and the surrounding area. Local News from Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Mercury Hundreds of operations cancelled March 1, 2010 HOSPITALS have cancelled hundreds of operations at the last minute, according to new Government figures.Shop staff... 

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.... 

Local news, sports and weather from around the Borough of Broxbourne, which covers Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Wormley, Turnford, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Goffs Oak and the surrounding area. Local News from Cheshunt and Waltham Cross Mercury Waltham Cross road crash victim named March 1, 2010 A MAN from Waltham Cross who died after a collision with a car has been named as 31-year-old Raymond Woodhead.Gang... 

Local  news from around the Borough of Broxbourne, which covers Hoddesdon, Broxbourne, Wormley, Turnford and the surrounding area. Local News from Hoddesdon and Broxbourne Mercury Hundreds of operations cancelled March 1, 2010 HOSPITALS have cancelled hundreds of operations at the last minute, according to new Government figures.Shop staff come to aid of stabbed teenager February 25, 2010 A STABBED... 

Cheshunt at War tells the story of the war years as they affected a small town in Hertfordshire 14 miles north of London. Cheshunt at War It recounts the privations and the dangers, the hard work and the leisure, the tragedies and joys of life between 1939 and 1945. The author, Peter Rooke, draws on his own memories and on taped conversations with local people, some of whom held posts of wartime responsibilty.... 

Frank and Lilly Tingle on their Wedding Day: June 18th 1896 This account of a wedding on June 18th 1896 is a good example of the way local newspapers would “go to town” on such events in those more leisurely days. The details of the clothes, the flowers, and even the music and the carriages, is exhaustive. The bridegroom became principal of the firm of accountants, Tingle Comber. The bride’s... 

After the Norman conquest Britain was divided up amongst the Norman lords, although the divisions of the kingdom established by King Alfred were largely retained. These were the shires, divided into hundreds, and each hundred into its towns and villages. The manor became the unit around and in which the life of the people revolved. In the Domesday Book, which until the establishment of the Central... 

Cheshunt Nunnery The abbey of Waltham must have had a considerable effect on the everyday life of the people of Cheshunt. The abbey held a large part of the manor of Wormley, granted to them in Saxon times and retained by them under Norman rule. It was then an establishment of secular canons who went out amongst the people. One of their particular ceremonies was the beating of the bounds, and as early... 

To understand anything of Cheshunt’s early history it is essential to know a little of the geography of the area. The town is situated in the valley of the River Lea, the hills of Essex rising fairly sharply to the east, whilst the ground takes a more gentle rise towards the western boundary. Goffs Oak is about 300 feet above sea level, compared to 60 feet at Waltham Cross. The lower western...