Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum is an independent local history museum. It is open Tues, Weds, Thurs 12pm to 6pm and Saturday 10am-3pm Run by a friendly and welcoming group of volunteers, the museum showcases the history of the area through objects, photographs and dvds.
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We welcome schools and groups to visit outside opening hours (by appointment) and offer an outreach service to local primary schools, focusing on a variety of curriculum subjects. We can also give talks to local groups in and around the town on the history and development of Elstree and Boreham Wood. The museum is generously supported by Hertsmere Borough Council, Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council, and The Heritage Lottery Fund
Operating as usual
This week our Object of the Week remembers Prince Philip's visit to Boreham Wood in 1963 : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=274
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This week we share some delightful nostalgic images of various roads in Borehamwood during the 1950s and 1960s. Masefield Avenue, Cowley Hill, Hartforde Road shops and Drayton Road.
Some of you have mentioned Tonibell in your posts. Here's one from memory lane 1987
Some of you have mentioned Tonibell in your posts. Here's one from memory lane 1987
This week we are treating you to three archive photos, 80 years apart. Two are from 1904 and one shows Glenhaven House. At this time, it was a house and nurseries. Home to the Pentecost family. Glenhaven Avenue houses now occupy the site.
The third photo is from 1984 and shows Shenley Road leading up to Glenhaven Avenue.
We're onto 'O' in our Object of the Week - what else but 'Oppermans'? Hands up if you've heard of them in Boreham Wood. https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=273
With everyone able to return to the pub garden on Monday, we have delved into our pub archive and found a photo of The Shooting Star at Christmastime 1982.
The Shooting Star was an estate pub standing on Rossington Avenue. It has now been renamed The Oak, built in the 1950s before there was easy access to central Borehamwood's pubs.
With everyone able to return to the pub garden on Monday, we have delved into our pub archive and found a photo of The Shooting Star at Christmastime 1982.
The Shooting Star was an estate pub standing on Rossington Avenue. It has now been renamed The Oak, built in the 1950s before there was easy access to central Borehamwood's pubs.
Happy World Health Day! To celebrate, Hertsmere Healthy Hub has created a self-kindness daily checklist to help boost your health and wellbeing. Why not print this off or screenshot it to have as a reminder this month.
Happy World Health Day! To celebrate, Hertsmere Healthy Hub has created a self-kindness daily checklist to help boost your health and wellbeing. Why not print this off or screenshot it to have as a reminder this month.
This week's Object is certainly unusual, and it has a complicated link to this area. Read about Napoleon's Death Mask here : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=272
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We stay with the Post Office and this archive photo from the early 1950s.
We stay with the Post Office and this archive photo from the early 1950s.
During lockdown, the volunteers have been recording the changes happening in Elstree and Borehamwood. These photos were taken last week of the former prefabs in Theobald Street. These have been demolished and new detached houses are being constructed on the site.
Where did you buy your 45s and LPs? If it was Lilley's in Shenley Road, then check out our Object of the Week : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=269
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Tomorrow is International Day of Happiness. This has been celebrated on 20th March since 2013. This year's theme is: Keep Calm, Stay Wise, Be Kind.
Not too long and we can start doing the things we enjoy again, including visiting Elstree and Borehamwood Museum when it re-opens.
This week's Object of the Week is all about Kinks and Kings and how they met in Boreham Wood. https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=268
Two photos for your memory banks this week. The first shows the Boulevard in the 1990s when an awning offered shoppers protection from the sun and rain. Iceland was to become Wickes.
The second photo is of the Gate Studios mid-demolition in 2006 in preparation for the building of new homes.
We've reached Jam and Jerusalem in our new Object of The Week which can only mean one thing - the Boreham Wood W.I. : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=267
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March's contribution from our archives is a photo of Elstree in 1966, showing Elstree Motors. Who remembers this?
Today is International Women's Day. It seems appropriate to commemorate Elstree resident and Actress, Dame Anna Neagle (1904-1986). Born Florence Marjorie Robertson, she married Herbert Wilcox, co-founder of B.I.P Studios. They lived at ‘Hartfield’ in Deacons Hill Road.
When the former MGM Studios backlot was sold for the Studio Way housing estate, the roads were named to celebrate the stars who had graced the local studios. Stars were picked who had already died, with one exception; Neagle Close after Dame Anna. She had made films at the studio, including Spring in Park Lane, which once held the record for the most number of tickets sold in UK cinemas. Another of her films was Odette, shot at the old Gate Studios next to the Borehamwood rail station.
Asked in a 1985 interview if her films had a feminist point of view, she replied: "Instinctively, yes, not consciously. I feel very strongly for women's emancipation. Now it's accepted, of course, but at the time some of the characters I played lived, it wasn't accepted."
She was bestowed with the honour of Dame of the British Empire in 1969 for her contributions to the theatre.
Onto I for Object of the Week : Innocenti, Cambi Hats, and the Central Garage : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=266
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Galloping onto 'H' this week is our part in the Home Of Rest For Horses History : Check out our Object Of The Week here :https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=265
Today is Shrove Tuesday and whilst we don't have any photos of pancake races in Elstree and Borehamwood (unless you do? In which case, please share!) here is a photo of a much loved bakery chain which sold some tasty sweet treats.
Freestone Bakery stood for many years on the corner of Whitehouse Avenue. The Freestones had bakeries in Borehamwood and Shenley. There was another bakery owned by EJ Freestone almost opposite called The Dutch Oven and yet another on the corner of Glenhaven Avenue which had a bakehouse right at the bottom of the road. Finally another in the parade of shops in Theobald Street.
Our Object the Week is A 'G' - The Grange. Check out this old house and its 'naughty' incumbent. : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=264
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A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Elstree Brickfields in our Object of the Week feature, E.
Here is an old postcard from the collection showing the entrance to Elstree Station and the path on the right hand side leading up to the brickfields.
A tragic tale and a simple twist of fate at The Fortune : Read more at our weekly blog : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=263
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It seems the snow hasn't finished with us yet and with more forecast for the weekend, we have dug out another wintry scene. This is Shenley Road.
Murder in Elstree : this week's Object of the Week on our blog : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=262
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We've reached 'D' in our Collection, and it's a combination of Devils and Dragons. Check it out here :
https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=261
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Correct! Gerald the Giraffe in Barnet Lane, next to The Manor.😀
Another Puzzle Photo for you. Where is this?!
Answer tomorrow.
Before ci******es we had Clay Pipes. Read about our local pipe finds on our blog : C is for Clay Pipes :https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=260
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Missed Cllr Caroline Clapper talking about the Hertsmere Museums initiative #CollectingCovid campaign on BBC Three Counties Radio, on Saturday morning?
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And the answer is...
The sign outside the Ibis Hotel for room rates
Yes, it's 'B' already in our new Objects Of The Week, and it has to be 'The Wood'. Boreham Wood Football Club : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=259
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While the Museum has to remain closed, we aim to try to keep you entertained in a 'virtual' way.
Here's another Puzzle Picture.
Where in the Wood is this?
Clue: Not a filling station.
We're back in this New Year with another alphabetical selection from our Collections. And we start again with 'A' and the Aldenham Bus Overhaul works : https://www.elstree-museum.org.uk/blog.php?id=258
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Happy New Year!
With bitterly cold wind and wintry showers in our forecast, we thought we would start 2021 with another snowy photograph. This is 1927 again, when there was heavy snowfall in the area. This is Elstree High Street.
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Rescued by John Woolston from our archives here's a short clip of Hanson's the day sweet rationing ended
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