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The Lea Valley Nursery Industry

The Lea Valley Nursery Industry
Harris Digital Productions in association with Lowewood Museum are producing a film 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.... 

Film Archive

Latest additions 16mm films Wallace Heaton film called Playtime  – scenes of London including Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge, Piccadilly Circus, Buckingham Palace and then we go further up the Thames to Hampstead where there is a fair and then to Windsor. There are also shots of Brighton, a bathing beauty contest, a children’s party on a Navy cruiser and Cowes. Dates from 1940s. Wreckers... 
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