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The Lea Valley Nursery Industry
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....
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