‘Down the Slipway’ Archive Exhibition
‘Your best exhibition yet – you have made my year’ said one of the nearly 400 people who attended our annual archive Exhibition. The event featured the Rowhedge Ironworks, a major shipbuilder which closed in …
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Harris Rally
The original Harris Rally was held in 2011 and primarily hosted the Harris–built smacks, Pioneer, Maria and Ellen. We now invite all smacks and working boats to attend this end-of-season event. We were pleased to …
Presentation of ‘Rowhedge Recollections’ to local schoolchildren
Rowhedge Recollections is a book of forty pages of villagers’ quotes and black and white pictures, most of which are from the early 1900s. It covers many items, including the ferry, the village’s former brewery, …
The Pump House
The Pump House is the last remaining historic building on the old Rowhedge Wharf site. It was built in 1903 to pump water to the Rowhedge Water Tower, a listed building in Parkfield Street, and …
Rowhedge Recollections
This lovely little booklet was originally published in 1977 to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee. It contains forty pages of villagers’ recollections and black-and-white pictures, most of which are from the early 1900s. Rowhedge Recollections …