http://www.lowewood.com Your guide to local history, news and events in the Borough of Broxbourne Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:00:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.lowewood.com/news/the-history-of-market-gardening-in-the-lea-valley http://www.lowewood.com/news/the-history-of-market-gardening-in-the-lea-valley#comments Sun, 17 Jan 2010 09:40:03 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2431 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/the-history-of-market-gardening-in-the-lea-valley/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/local-news http://www.lowewood.com/news/local-news#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:31:44 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=682 http://www.lowewood.com/news/local-news/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/the-lea-valley-nursery-industry http://www.lowewood.com/news/the-lea-valley-nursery-industry#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.lowewood.com/?p=2371 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/news/the-lea-valley-nursery-industry/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-news http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-news#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:53:42 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=740 http://www.lowewood.com/news/cheshunt-news/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:21:51 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=768 http://www.lowewood.com/news/hoddesdon-news/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/cheshunt-at-war http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/cheshunt-at-war#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:10:13 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=131 Cheshunt at War tells the story of the war years as they affected a small town in Hertfordshire 14 miles north of London. 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/cheshunt-at-war/feed 1 http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/a-society-wedding http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/a-society-wedding#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:04:17 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=259 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/walthamcross/a-society-wedding/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/the-manorial-system http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/the-manorial-system#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:26:38 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=167 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/the-manorial-system/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/medieval-cheshunt http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/medieval-cheshunt#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:24:50 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=162 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/medieval-cheshunt/feed 0 http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/cheshunts-early-history http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/cheshunts-early-history#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:06:41 +0000 admin http://www.lowewoodmuseum.org.uk/?p=151 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 [...]]]> http://www.lowewood.com/cheshunt/cheshunts-early-history/feed 0